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Senator opens inquiry into US Center for SafeSportโs hiring of investigator charged with sex crimes
Read full article: Senator opens inquiry into US Center for SafeSportโs hiring of investigator charged with sex crimesThe chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee is looking into how a former police officer landed an investigator's job at the U.S. Center for SafeSport despite sex-crime allegations that littered his past, while also asking if the center knew he had been accused of newer crimes when working there last year.
SafeSport CEO says in email: Knowing arrested investigator fooled them is 'just sickening'
Read full article: SafeSport CEO says in email: Knowing arrested investigator fooled them is 'just sickening'The leader of the U.S. Center for SafeSport wrote in an email that the revelation of a former investigatorโs arrest on rape charges was โjust sickening,โ while also saying there was no reason to believe heโd committed any wrongdoing while working for the center.
Appellate judges raise doubts about Harvey Weinsteinโs conviction
Read full article: Appellate judges raise doubts about Harvey Weinsteinโs convictionA New York appeals court has excoriated Manhattan prosecutors for filling out Harvey Weinsteinโs rape trial last year with what one judge deemed โincredibly prejudicial testimonyโ from women whose allegations werenโt part of the criminal charges against him.
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Weinstein juror: #MeToo movement was not a factor in trial
Read full article: Weinstein juror: #MeToo movement was not a factor in trialJudge James Burke, left, instructs the jurors before they begin deliberating on Harvey Weinstein's rape trial, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)NEW YORK, N.Y. โ The jury that convicted Harvey Weinstein of rape and sex assault did not consider the trial's implications for the #MeToo movement, one of the jurors said in an interview aired Friday. โNo, zero, absolutely zero,โ juror Drew Malbin said on โCBS This Morning." After a weekend off, jurors took just two more hours of deliberations to reach a verdict on all charges. The Associated Press does not typically identify people who say they are victims of sex crimes unless they grant permission, as Haleyi did.
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Weinstein's bail hiked over allegations he disabled monitor
Read full article: Weinstein's bail hiked over allegations he disabled monitorNEW YORK, NY โ A judge Wednesday hiked Harvey Weinsteinโs bail over allegations he mishandled or disabled his electronic ankle monitor dozens of times in recent months. Weinstein, who had been free on $1 million bail, agreed to meet the obligation by putting up $2 million in cash and other assets through a bail bondsman. Burke offered Weinstein three bail options because of reforms to New Yorkโs bail system that are set to take effect on Jan. 1. Weinstein bail bondsman Ira Judelson's clients have included mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor and former International Monetary Fund honcho Dominique Strauss-Kahn. One of Judelson's associates outside the courthouse wore a sweatshirt with the slogan, โGot Bail?โProsecutor Joan Illuzzi first raised Weinsteinโs alleged bail violations at a hearing last Friday.