Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been indicted on additional sex crimes charges ahead of his retrial in New York, Manhattan prosecutors said at a hearing Thursday. The indictment will remain under seal until Weinstein’s arraignment on the new charges, scheduled for Sept. 18.
The New York appeals court dismissed former President Donald Trump’s request to drop the gag order in his New York criminal case. In a brief order, the court wrote that “no substantial constitutional question is directly involved.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland denounced what he called “conspiracy theories” and “dangerous falsehoods” targeting the Justice Department during a speech to employees. It’s Garland’s latest broadside against claims that his department has been politically weaponized under the Biden administration to go after Trump.
