Weinstein has put forward a new charge of rape
Prosecutors in Los Angeles brought new charges against the American producer Harvey Weinstein – he again accused of violent acts of a sexual nature. About it the Agency announced on April 10.
The incident allegedly occurred in may 2010 at a hotel in Beverly hills.
The victim was interviewed as a witness in October of 2019, the report said. The woman provided investigators evidence that an attack occurred within a ten-year Statute of limitations.
If the accused is found guilty, he faces up to 29 years of imprisonment in a state prison.
On February 24 in new York jury found Weinstein guilty of criminal sexual assault against one woman and raping another. The prosecution based on the testimony of former assistant producer Miriam (Mimi) Haley, who said that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex in 2006, and the testimony of actress Jessica Mann. Recent claims that Weinstein had raped her in 2013.
On March 11 the court based on a jury sentenced a 67-year-old Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein to 23 years in prison.
