Sexual Charges Against Weinstein Get TOSSED

Some of Weinstein's accusers.

Allegations made by Lucia Evans, who was among the first women to publicly accuse Bernie Weinstein, were tossed out of court last Thursday.  The charges were dismissed after evidence emerged that a police detective had coached a witness to stay silent about evidence that cast doubt on the account one of his three accusers.

Harvey still faces charges over allegations that he raped an unidentified woman in his hotel room in 2013 and performed a forcible sex act on a different woman in 2006.

In the Evans case, a woman closed to Evans told the police detective that Evans had told her that what had happened in Weinstein's office was consensual as Weinstein had promised her an acting job if she agreed to perform oral sex and she agreed. According to this witness, who was not named in the Court filing, Evans had been drinking and "appeared to be upset, embarrassed and shaking" when she told her story.

Weinstein's lawyer, Ben Brafman, told the Judge he believed Evans had lied both to the grand jury and to the New Yorker Magazine about her encounter with Weinstein. "The integrity of these proceedings has been compromised" he said, and suggested that Evans should be prosecuted criminally for perjury.

Weinstein has pleaded not guilty to all charges and is free on $1 million bail.

The clouds are parting, at least a little, for Bernie and it could well be that in the end all of the charges against him are dropped for both lack of hard evidence and consentuality based upon getting a movie role or model booking.

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Jim Lavorato