Harvey Weinstein faces new criminal charges, a prosecutor announced on Thursday. During a hearing before Judge Curtis Farber in New York state court in Manhattan on Thursday, prosecutor Nicole Blumberg said a grand jury had indicted Harvey Weinstein on additional charges, but did not specify what those crimes were. The development comes as the Manhattan District Attorney's office is gearing up to retry the former film producer after his rape conviction was overturned, Reuters reports. Farber has tentatively set a trial date for Nov. 12. In 2020, jurors in Manhattan found Weinstein, 72, guilty of rape charges, but the New York Court of Appeals threw out the conviction, in April, finding Weinstein did not get a fair trial because a judge improperly allowed testimony by accusers he was not formally charged with assaulting.
More than 80 women have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct. His initial conviction in New York was a milestone for the #MeToo movement, in which women accused hundreds of men in entertainment, media, and politics of sexual misconduct. Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for the New York case, and to 16 years in prison for the separate California case. In that case, a Los Angeles jury found Weinstein guilty of rape, forcible oral copulation and sexual penetration by a foreign object involving one woman but acquitted him of charges relating to a second accuser. The judge overseeing the case declared a mistrial on the counts where the jury could not reach a verdict, including the allegations made by Siebel Newsom, the wife of California Governor Gavin Newsom. The California conviction was not affected by the New York top court's decision. Weinstein has not begun serving the California sentence.
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