In Brief: Criminal and Civil Prospects for the Women Hurt by Weinstein

In a bombshell report early this October, the New York Times released an article exposing over three decades of sexual misconduct by Hollywood mega-producer, Harvey Weinstein. As a result, I am taking a brief detour from our usual “product safety” blog posts, and in light of the many sexual conduct cases I have handled over the years (both civilly and criminally as a former prosecutor myself), and in response to a number of people who have asked me, what kind of civil and criminal remedies, if any, may be available to the Weinstein victims, I have attempted to provide my best “quick” analysis of same here.