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385 views14 pagesHarvey Weinstein Assistant WhatsApp Messages Emerge in in SDNY in Sex Trafficking Case
By Matthew Russell Lee, Periscope
FEDERAL COURTHOUSE, February 20 – A motion by Harvey Weinstein's lawyers to immediately appeal an order allowing a case against him for violating the Federal sex trafficking statute to go forward was argued on February 20 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. From the questions posed by SDNY Judge Robert W. Sweet it appears this intermediate or interlocutory appeal will not be allowed. (Sweet reserved decision, being in the middle of a trial with the jury coming back from lunch in the snowy streets of Chinatown an hour after the Weinstein argument).
The plaintiff Kadian Noble has complained she was lured with the promise of career advancement -- something of value, as it was described in the hearing - into a hotel in Cannes, France in February 2014 and then assaulted. Weinstein's lawyer called the decision to apply sex trafficking law to this a case of first impression and wants to appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals across Pearl Street at 40 Foley Square. The case is Kadian Noble v. Weinstein, et al., Case No. 17-CV-09260 (RWS).
Ms. Noble's lawyer Jeffrey Herman said Judge Sweet has only allowed such interlocutory appeals in the TWA cases, to avoid the Federal judicial system being burdened with 200 separate appeals. Weinstein's lawyer replied that there are other cases against Weinstein, including one in California by Herman's firm. Afterward by the elevators Inner City Press asked Herman about the case. He said Dominique Huett is the plaintiff; he told Inner City Press that like Ms. Noble, Ms. Huett has been emboldened to come forward by the #MeToo movement -- and, he said, social media like YouTube which allows victims to immediately respond to an alleged perpetrator's denials.
And now there are these WhatApp messages, May 13 and then May 31 ("I confronted Harvey"), with Weinstein's executive assistant Vanessa Ford, Inner City Press has put them on Scribd here. We'll have more on this.
The age of the casting couch is over, Herman said. There was some skepticism. But at least as to U.S. perpetrators there is a judicial system. And Inner City Press has found, international bodies in the United Nations and there officials face no judicial accountability. Whether this will remain the case, and how Judge Sweet will rule, remain to be seen. Watch this site
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385 views14 pagesHarvey Weinstein Assistant WhatsApp Messages Emerge in in SDNY in Sex Trafficking Case
By Matthew Russell Lee, Periscope
FEDERAL COURTHOUSE, February 20 – A motion by Harvey Weinstein's lawyers to immediately appeal an order allowing a case against him for violating the Federal sex trafficking statute to go forward was argued on February 20 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. From the questions posed by SDNY Judge Robert W. Sweet it appears this intermediate or interlocutory appeal will not be allowed. (Sweet reserved decision, being in the middle of a trial with the jury coming back from lunch in the snowy streets of Chinatown an hour after the Weinstein argument).
The plaintiff Kadian Noble has complained she was lured with the promise of career advancement -- something of value, as it was described in the hearing - into a hotel in Cannes, France in February 2014 and then assaulted. Weinstein's lawyer called the decision to apply sex trafficking law to this a case of first impression and wants to appeal to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals across Pearl Street at 40 Foley Square. The case is Kadian Noble v. Weinstein, et al., Case No. 17-CV-09260 (RWS).
Ms. Noble's lawyer Jeffrey Herman said Judge Sweet has only allowed such interlocutory appeals in the TWA cases, to avoid the Federal judicial system being burdened with 200 separate appeals. Weinstein's lawyer replied that there are other cases against Weinstein, including one in California by Herman's firm. Afterward by the elevators Inner City Press asked Herman about the case. He said Dominique Huett is the plaintiff; he told Inner City Press that like Ms. Noble, Ms. Huett has been emboldened to come forward by the #MeToo movement -- and, he said, social media like YouTube which allows victims to immediately respond to an alleged perpetrator's denials.
And now there are these WhatApp messages, May 13 and then May 31 ("I confronted Harvey"), with Weinstein's executive assistant Vanessa Ford, Inner City Press has put them on Scribd here. We'll have more on this.
The age of the casting couch is over, Herman said. There was some skepticism. But at least as to U.S. perpetrators there is a judicial system. And Inner City Press has found, international bodies in the United Nations and there officials face no judicial accountability. Whether this will remain the case, and how Judge Sweet will rule, remain to be seen. Watch this site
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