Manhattan DA's Sentencing Memo Details Dozens More Bad Acts by Harvey Weinstein
The letter does not recommend a specific sentence but prosecutors asked the court to consider the severity of Weinstein's acts and his lack of remorse.
March 06, 2020 at 05:10 PM
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With less than a week to go before former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is set to be sentenced in Manhattan criminal court, prosecutor Joan Illuzzi-Orbon signed an 11-page letter detailing dozens of alleged bad acts by Weinstein discovered during the DA's two-year investigation.
Weinstein was found guilty in February of criminal sexual act in the first degree and rape in the third degree. He was acquitted of two counts of predatory sexual assault and one count of rape in the first degree.
The letter does not recommend a specific sentence, but Illuzzi-Orbon asked acting New York County Supreme Court Justice James Burke to "impose a sentence that reflects the seriousness of [Weinstein's] offenses, his total lack of remorse for the harm he has caused, and the need to deter him and others from engaging in further criminal conduct."
Weinstein's spokesman Juda Engelmayer did not immediately comment on the letter.
Burke ordered that Weinstein spend the weeks between the Feb. 24 verdict and sentencing, set for March 11, in jail, but Weinstein only arrived on Rikers Island this week due to reported health issues.
He was hospitalized for more than a week and eventually had a heart stent inserted, according to reports.
In her letter, which was filed Friday afternoon, Illuzzi-Orbon detailed 16 allegations of sexual assault and harassment dating back to 1978. They are all in addition to the allegations set forth by six female witnesses during Weinstein's trial, she explained.
Many of the alleged victims worked in the entertainment industry, but they also included a Cipriani waitress and a professional massage therapist, according to the letter. The Cipriani waitress is not former Cipriani waitress Tarale Wulff, who testified at the trial, according to Illuzzi-Orbon's letter.
The letter also recounts more than a dozen instances of "abusive behavior in the workplace."
The allegations are "frighteningly similar" to the events described during Weinstein's trial, Illuzzi-Orbon wrote. According to the letter, several women expected to have professional meetings with Weinstein but instead encountered sexual aggression; he also suggested several women massage him or that he massage them, Illuzzi-Orbon wrote.
Some of the alleged victims of abusive workplace behavior are male, including one man who was ordered out of a car by Weinstein and left on the side of the road in a foreign country, according to Illuzzi-Orbon. Other employees reported that Weinstein routinely cursed at them, erupted with a "volcanic" temper and asked executives to lie on his behalf.
The DA's office heard accounts of Weinstein putting a male reporter in a headlock and hitting him on the head, Weinstein threatening to kill a board member or "send someone to his office to cut off his genitals with gardening shears," and Weinstein throwing staplers and other objects at employees, according to the letter.
"Multiple people have reported to the People that defendant bragged about his ability to get people killed," Illuzzi-Orbon wrote, noting the similarity to trial witness Jessica Mann's testimony that Weinstein offered to send men with bats to assault her father.
A spokesman for Weinstein declined to comment.
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