Big names in Hollywood are turning up the heat on how law enforcement dealt with allegations about Harvey Weinstein's sexual behavior in the past.
Those range from Reese Witherspoon to Julianne Moore. They sent a letter to New York governor Andrew Cuomo.
Specifically they focused on the 2015 allegations by Italian actress Ambra Battilana about Weinstein. At the time, Manhattan attorney general Cyrus Vance made the decision not to bring charges.
That was then.
Now, Cuomo has instructed the state attorney general Eric Schneiderman to review the entire process which generated that decision. Here are details in the media.
This new probe is in addition to the review of the 2105 events by the Manhattan district attorney.
Vance's spokesperson Danny Frost denies any wrongdoing.
The Weinstein scandal has already damaged the brand of superlawyer David Boies. He had represented Al Gore in "Bush v. Gore" which went to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000.
In a major The New Yorker feature, Ronan Farrow disclosed that Boies had overseen spying on Weinstein's accuser and on journalists. Not long after that article went viral, Boies restructured his iconic law firm Boies Schiller. Also, the New York Times company fired him.
Incidentally, for a while, Boies was advising fallen tech goddess Elizabeth Holmes and was on the board of her company Theranos. Recently, she stepped down as leader in a settlement with the SEC. It accused her of "massive fraud." She had been on a downward trajectory since The Wall Street Journal outed the problems with Theranos' supposedly proprietary technology. Here is that now-classic expose.
So, it's not unthinkable that Vance's brand could be significantly damaged as the facts come out.
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