{"id":10691,"date":"2018-02-11T17:46:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=10691"},"modified":"2018-02-11T17:46:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T22:46:14","slug":"new-york-state-sues-weinstein-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/02\/11\/new-york-state-sues-weinstein-company\/","title":{"rendered":"New York state sues Weinstein Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">New York prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against the Weinstein Company, alleging that the studio failed to protect staff from Harvey Weinstein.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Weinstein is facing dozens of allegations ranging from rape to sexual harassment, but denies having non-consensual sex with anyone.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit also states that any sale of the company &#8220;must ensure that victims will be compensated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The studio had been in talks to sell itself to a group of investors.<\/p>\n<p>New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said on Sunday he had filed the suit against the Weinstein Company, Harvey Weinstein, and Robert Weinstein.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Schneiderman said in a statement that &#8220;neither perpetrators nor enablers will be unjustly enriched&#8221; by any sale of the studio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every New Yorker has a right to a workplace free of sexual harassment, intimidation, and fear,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-43027227\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">New York prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against the Weinstein Company, alleging that the studio failed to protect staff from Harvey Weinstein. Mr Weinstein is facing dozens of allegations ranging from rape to sexual harassment, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/02\/11\/new-york-state-sues-weinstein-company\/\" title=\"New York state sues Weinstein Company\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,2,3],"tags":[4307,521,4859,2587,4858],"class_list":{"0":"post-10691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headline","8":"category-news","9":"category-usa","10":"tag-harvey-weinstein","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-robert-weinstein","13":"tag-sexual-harassment","14":"tag-weinstein-company","15":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10692,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10691\/revisions\/10692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}