Throughout a listening to earlier than Decide Curtis Farber in New York state court docket in Manhattan on Thursday, prosecutor Nicole Blumberg stated a grand jury had indicted Harvey Weinstein on further fees, however didn’t specify what these crimes have been.
Weinstein was not in court docket for the listening to. He was rushed to the hospital from New York Metropolis’s Rikers Island jail on Sunday to bear emergency coronary heart surgical procedure, and his attorneys say he’s beset with well being issues.
Weinstein’s defence lawyer Arthur Aidala stated the grand jury was probing three “issues,” however didn’t know whether or not that referred to particular incidents or the variety of accusers.
Farber has tentatively set a trial date for Nov. 12. Blumberg stated on Thursday that prosecutors would nonetheless be ready to go to trial on that date. Aidala advised reporters his group would attempt to delay any trial containing new fees.
Regardless of the reversal of his New York conviction, Weinstein has remained in custody in New York due to a separate rape conviction in California.
On the listening to, Farber ordered that Weinstein stay in custody at Bellevue Hospital, discovering that the newest well being care confirmed he was not getting satisfactory therapy at Rikers.