Harvey Schmuck

Ace of Spades has this to say about Harvey Weinstein:

New York City DA Scrambles to Blame NYPD for Not Prosecuting Harvey Weinstein; NYPD Says They're Lying
—Ace

A hot enough fire soon starts sparking off dry and rotten wood all around it.

There's a lot of corruption in government and big institutions like Hollywood. Everyone knows that. There are fixers who donate to key people to keep their clients out of jail, or who threaten witnesses to make them quiet.

It's practically begging to be exposed.

But it takes a major event to disturb the status quo and get people to start talking about it.

I think -- or at least hope -- that the Harvey Weinstein bombshell is going to have enormous collateral damage and be the size of scandal that actually gets written up in future high school history books, like Teapot Dome.

...The DA's office claimed that the Special Victims Unit hadn't coordinated with the DA to learn what needed to be proven in the case -- like that you needed to establish "criminal intent" in a case about a guy grabbing a woman's tits.

Apparently the DA is claiming that you need Harvey Weinstein admitting on tape, "When I groped your breasts without permission, I had criminal intent to do so." Apparently it's not the sort of thing that can be inferred from circumstances or the common sense dictate that you do not grope a woman's breasts without permission.

Nope: The DA is claiming you need to get Weinstein on tape announcing his criminal intent, and also, that the SVU doesn't understand what it takes to prove a sex crime case. Because apparently this is their first rodeo.

A fair number of people are arrested for rubbing up against women on subway rides. Sexually. Is the DA claiming you need a confession of criminal intent to prosecute those cases? I would imagine they don't have that most of the time -- I would imagine that the facts alone, that a guy with an erection kept pushing up against a woman's butt, would prove the criminal intent behind them.

But not for Harvey Weinstein.

...Cyrus Vance Jr. received $10,000 from Harvey Weinstein's lawyer David Boies shortly after his office declined to prosecute Weinstein. FYI.

...When a flasher exposes himself to a woman, you don't need a tape recording of him saying "When I showed this woman who I do not know my penis, I did so with the criminal intent to expose myself to an unwilling woman." The facts and circumstances prove the intent themselves.

Via Hot Air, reported by the New York Daily News, an anonymous NYPD source comes pretty close to alleging criminal intent on the part of the DA:

"Ask the DA if they would have made the arrest if the guy's name was Harvey Schmuck," one police official said.

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