New York Attorney General launches civil rights investigation into The Weinstein Co.

Bosses at The Weinstein Company have been asked to turn over all office records to the New York Attorney General as part of a new civil rights investigation into the treatment of its employees.
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman wants to determine whether staff members at the New York-based production firm were subjected to discrimination or any kind of harassment following the sex drama surrounding ousted studio chief Harvey Weinstein, and he has issued a subpoena to access the company’s records.
The disgraced producer was described as a serial sexual predator in exposes in The New York Times and The New Yorker earlier this month (Oct17), and he stands accused of behaving inappropriately with a multitude of women over the past three decades.
He was subsequently fired from the board of directors at The Weinstein Company (TWC), the firm he co-founded with his brother Bob, and formally resigned last week (17Oct17), before his termination was made official.
A select group of former TWC employees have since spoken out against the fallen movie mogul, branding him a “monster” in a joint statement issued on 19 October (17).
“We all knew that we were working for a man with an infamous temper,” they added, “We did not know we were working for a serial sexual predator. We knew that our boss could be manipulative. We did not know that he used his power to systematically assault and silence women. We had an idea that he was a womanizer who had extra-marital affairs. We did not know he was a violent aggressor and alleged rapist.”
The New York Attorney General’s civil rights probe is not the only legal issue Weinstein is facing. Authorities in London, New York, and Los Angeles are currently also investigating sex crime complaints from a number of women.
Weinstein has denied all allegations of non-consensual sex.