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☆ Harvey Weinstein will be retried in New York after rape conviction overturned
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-01 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Harvey Weinstein uses a walker as he arrives at the Manhattan Criminal Court, on January 7, 2020 on the second day of his criminal trial on charges of rape and sexual assault in New York City. Harvey Weinstein will be retried in New York, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office said on Wednesday, a week after the state's highest court threw out his 2020 rape conviction. Weinstein, 72, had been serving a 23-year sentence in a prison in upstate Rome, New York. The conviction included charges of first-degree sexual assault and third-degree rape. Weinstein was also sentenced to 16 years following his separate rape trial in California.

Persons: Harvey Weinstein, Weinstein, Judge Curtis Farber, Juda Engelmayer, Miriam Haley, Jessica Mann, James Burke, Burke, Curtis Farber, Love Organizations: Manhattan Criminal, Manhattan, Attorney's, Bellevue Hospital, New, Appeals, Miramax Locations: New York City, New York, Rome , New York, Bellevue, Manhattan, California, York

☆ Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction overturned by New York appeals court
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-25 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, California, October 4, 2022. Harvey Weinstein's 2020 rape conviction was overturned Thursday in New York, making way for a new trial. The court called the errors "egregious" and ordered a new trial, meaning his accusers could again be called to testify. "This Court has continued a disturbing trend of overturning juries' guilty verdicts in cases involving sexual violence," Singas wrote. The charges came to light in 2017 following investigative reports published by The New York Times and The New Yorker.

Persons: Harvey Weinstein, Clara Shortridge Foltz, Harvey Weinstein's, uncharged, Madeline Singas, Singas, Juda, Weinstein, Engelmayer Organizations: Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal, Center, Appeals, NBC News, The New York Times, Yorker Locations: Los Angeles , California, New York, California, Los Angeles

EVANSVILLE, Wis. (AP) — The first tornadoes ever recorded in Wisconsin in the usually frigid month of February caused more than $2.4 million in damage, officials said Wednesday. The tornadoes that ripped through Rock County on Feb. 8 killed some cattle and hit 30 homes, officials said. One confirmed tornado near Evansville was a “high end” F2, the weather service said. Those tornadoes are described as “significant,” with winds in this particular twister topping out at 135 mph (220 kph). The tornadoes were the first Wisconsin has experienced during the month of February since at least 1950, when records started being kept.

Persons: Kevin Wernet Organizations: Rock County Emergency Management Locations: EVANSVILLE, Wis, Wisconsin, Rock County, Porter, Fulton, Evansville, Juda

A woman holds her smart phone which displays the Google home page, in this picture illustration taken February 24, 2016. Google's James Kolotouros, who negotiated search distribution agreements with Android device makers and carriers, testified the agreements gave Google search exclusivity, and Google monitored compliance with them. Advertisers are not told their LTV, and Google uses "tunings" to adjust the price of ads, he said. Google's vice president and general manager of ads, Jerry Dischler, acknowledged that Google earned more than $100 billion in 2020 from search ads. Apple's (AAPL.O) senior vice president of services Eddie Cue praised Google's search and acknowledged under questioning that the smartphone maker had meetings with Microsoft and DuckDuckGo, which uses Bing searches, but found them inadequate.

Persons: Eric Gaillard, Google's James Kolotouros, Adam Juda, Joshua Lowcock, Jerry Dischler, Satya Nadella, Eddie Cue, Bing, John Schmidtlein, Google's, Diane Bartz, Marguerita Choy Organizations: REUTERS, U.S, Google, Department, GOOGLE, Verizon, Samsung, LTV, UM Worldwide, Microsoft, Apple, Nokia, Bing, Thomson Locations: WASHINGTON

An illuminated Google logo is seen inside an office building in Zurich, Switzerland December 5, 2018. The Justice Department has accused Google of manipulating online auctions - a multibillion dollar industry dominated by Google - with these formulas to favor its own bottom line. Dahlquist asked Juda if they had introduced changes to ad sales in a way that raised the cost-per-click by a consumer that advertisers pay. But Wendy Waszmer, a lawyer for Google, asked Juda on Wednesday afternoon on if there were ways that his ads quality team could raise prices unilaterally. Google's advertising business has been criticized by advertisers and website publishers for a lack of transparency, with both accusing Google of siphoning off too much revenue.

Persons: Arnd, Adam Juda, David Dahlquist, Juda, Dahlquist, Wendy Waszmer, Diane Bartz, Aurora Ellis Organizations: REUTERS, WASHINGTON, U.S . Justice Department, The, Google, Justice, European Union, LTV, Thomson Locations: Zurich, Switzerland, Washington, United States

☆ Exclusive: U.S. quietly inspects Israeli crossings for its Palestinian dual-nationals
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-01 | by ( Dan Williams | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Since the trial period began, Palestinian Americans already say there is a difference. The allies have sought to limit publicity around the trial period, which comes amid unusually intense strains between their leaderships over wider Palestinian policies and other issues. One official told Reuters the trial period has been "going smoothly," without significant hold-ups for Palestinian American travellers. The Arab American Institute Foundation puts the number of Americans of Palestinian descent at between 122,500 and 220,000. An Israeli official gave lower figures, saying that out of 70,000 to 90,000 Palestinian Americans worldwide, about 15,000 to 20,000 were West Bank residents.

Persons: Abdul Jalil Juda, Ben Gurion, Benjamin Netanyahu, Nidal al, Nuha Sharaf, Dan Williams, Peter Graff Organizations: Ben Gurion, West Bank, U.S, Visa, Reuters, Embassy, Israel's National Security Council, Israeli, Palestinian, ., City University of New, of Homeland Security, State Department, Arab American Institute Foundation, West Bank ., Thomson Locations: Israel, JERUSALEM, Palestinian, Israeli, West, Washington, United States, Ben, Jordan, Jerusalem, U.S, American, City University of New York, The U.S, Gaza

Gavin Newsom, is set to testify in the sexual assault trial of disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein in Los Angeles, her attorneys told CNN Monday. After he was found guilty in New York, the once-powerful movie mogul was moved to Los Angeles, where he’s been serving his prison sentence. In Los Angeles, Weinstein faces multiple sexual assault charges that he has pleaded not guilty to last year, including four counts of rape, four counts of forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration by force and sexual battery by restraint in incidents dating from 2004 to 2013. Jury selection for Weinstein’s trial began Monday in Los Angeles County Superior Court. As the trial in Los Angeles is set to get underway, Weinstein has maintained his innocence and denied all allegations against him.

☆ Anna Sorokin: Real-life 'Inventing Anna' released from jail
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-07 | by ( Catherine E. Shoichet | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Anna Sorokin, the fake heiress Netflix’s “Inventing Anna” is based on, was released from ICE detention on Friday. The judge’s ruling also said ICE may use an ankle monitor to keep tabs on Sorokin. A spokesman for ICE said Sorokin was being released Friday after the judge’s ruling. Sorokin was released from jail in February 2021 after serving nearly four years on theft and larceny charges. Earlier this year an attorney representing Sorokin told NBC News that he feared her deportation when he couldn’t reach her, but word later emerged that she was still in ICE custody.

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