Just as video went public today of Harvey Weinstein apparently sexual harassing a women in a business meeting, attempts by the once high-powered producer to close down a criminal case that could see him behind bars for life was called out by the New York County District Attorney’s Office as “meritless” and that it “should be denied.”
“Defendant moves to dismiss the indictment or counts thereof on various grounds of alleged defect or deficiency in the presentation of the matter to the grand jury,” said Cyrus Vance Jr’s office Wednesday in a response to a sprawling and politically charged August 3 motion to dismiss from Weinstein’s primary attorney Ben Brafman.
“Inspection will reveal that the evidence before the grand jury amply supported the offenses charged, that the grand jury was properly instructed on the law, and that the integrity of the proceedings was unimpaired, and the People deny all allegations to the contrary,...
“Defendant moves to dismiss the indictment or counts thereof on various grounds of alleged defect or deficiency in the presentation of the matter to the grand jury,” said Cyrus Vance Jr’s office Wednesday in a response to a sprawling and politically charged August 3 motion to dismiss from Weinstein’s primary attorney Ben Brafman.
“Inspection will reveal that the evidence before the grand jury amply supported the offenses charged, that the grand jury was properly instructed on the law, and that the integrity of the proceedings was unimpaired, and the People deny all allegations to the contrary,...
- 9/12/2018
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a lover of science. Astronomy especially. I grew up watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, and James Burke’s great series Connections. Even today, I am indebted to writers like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Hawking and Sean Carroll for writing about subjects like black holes and the nature of time in ways that a layman like me can understand. I think people like this are imperative to society because many of the subjects they study are critical to us as a race. Two of those subjects are NEOs (Near Earth Objects) and astrobiology. NEOs …...
- 1/22/2013
- by Mark Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
There's a lot of argument these days over who did or didn't build this or that, but "Dirty Jobs" star Mike Rowe is sure of one thing -- regardless of who built America, there's a lot of alcohol mixed into the mortar of its foundation.
Tonight (Sept. 19) Discovery Channel premieres the first of three episodes (the next two air on consecutive Wednesdays) of "How Booze Built America," in which Rowe traces how beer, wine and spirits figured into the creation of the United States.
"The first episode is the American Revolution," Rowe tells Zap2it. "It's 1620 to 1812, and it's a measured look, from the molasses tax to the sugar tax ..."
Speaking of molasses and sugar, there was the infamous "triangle trade," one aspect of which saw sugar (often in the form of molasses) shipped from the Caribbean to New England to be distilled into rum. The rum was sent to...
Tonight (Sept. 19) Discovery Channel premieres the first of three episodes (the next two air on consecutive Wednesdays) of "How Booze Built America," in which Rowe traces how beer, wine and spirits figured into the creation of the United States.
"The first episode is the American Revolution," Rowe tells Zap2it. "It's 1620 to 1812, and it's a measured look, from the molasses tax to the sugar tax ..."
Speaking of molasses and sugar, there was the infamous "triangle trade," one aspect of which saw sugar (often in the form of molasses) shipped from the Caribbean to New England to be distilled into rum. The rum was sent to...
- 9/19/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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