Harvey Weinstein indicted by NY grand jury on rape and sex assault charges
by Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times
May 30, 2018
4 minutes
LOS ANGELES - A New York grand jury indicted producer Harvey Weinstein on two counts of rape and another of a criminal sexual act Wednesday just days after he surrendered to authorities.
Weinstein is charged with rape in the first degree, rape in the third degree and committing a criminal sexual act in the first degree for alleged forcible sexual acts against two women in 2004 and 2013.
"This indictment brings the defendant another step closer to accountability for the crimes of violence with which he is now charged," Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said in announcing the indictment. "Our office will try this case not in the press, but in the courtroom where it
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