Building a sex assault case against Harvey Weinstein was two years in the making.
The case against Harvey Weinstein was built by Los Angeles police and prosecutors over two years, and Los Angeles Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey said Monday it was at times a wrenching process.
“We were working on investigating those cases. In regards to the victims in this case and other sexual assault cases, it was very challenging to get those victims to open up and tell us what they needed to tell us,” she said. “For some, it was very embarrassing, terrifying and so [we] told them we were just working to get the evidence we need to get to court.
As Los Angeles investigated, New York authorities filed criminal charges of their own against Weinstein. His trial is scheduled to begin this week.Law enforcement sources have told The Times L.A. investigators have spent months talking to potential witnesses, seeing how they could corroborate the women’s allegations, including through hotel video and records. Weinstein has denied any wrongdoing in the L.A. allegations and has pleaded not guilty to the New York charges.
The case is challenging because of the private nature of the alleged crime scene and by the fact that many women came to police sometimes years after the incident occurred. They took action after the New Yorker and New York Times published explosive stories in which women accused him.
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