NYPD reportedly hid Weinstein accuser from his cronies at the Manhattan DA
Prosecutor refusing to prosecute is one of the ways the rich and powerful get away with breaking laws. Its one of the most frustrating situations for Police who know via facts of investigation that the person is dead on guilty, they are powerless to do anything about it.
NYPD sex-crime detectives once had to hide a woman accusing Harvey Weinstein of assault — stashing her away from both the movie mogul’s lawyers and his cronies in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, a report said Friday.
Investigators told New York magazine that they had Weinstein dead to rights in 2015 after he allegedly groped Italian model Ambra Battilana in his office.
That was until Manhattan DA Cy Vance Jr., whose office had close ties to Weinstein’s legal team, chose not to prosecute in a decision that still irks investigators who worked the case, according to the mag.
The Weinstein probe was so sensitive, Special Victims Division commander Michael Osgood and his team checked Battilana into Manhattan hotels under assumed names.
“We decided we’re going to hide the victim,” said retired Sgt. Michael Bock of NYPD’s Special Victims Division. “From the DA.”
Weinstein’s legal team on the Battilana matter included attorneys Elkan Abramowitz and Linda Fairstein, former head of the Manhattan DA’s Sex Crimes Unit.
Abramowitz is a former partner of Vance’s while Fairstein is a close pal of Martha Bashford — head of the DA’s Sex Crimes Unit back in 2015 and still today.
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