Grand jury in NYC returns new indictment against Harvey Weinstein

NEW YORK -- A expansive assemblage has returned a caller indictment against Harvey Weinstein, prosecutors with the Manhattan DA's bureau said successful court.

Weinstein, who is recuperating aft emergency bosom surgery, was not contiguous and prosecutors asked the justice to acceptable a day for his arraignment.

Weinstein's lawyers connected Thursday said helium would person liked to beryllium contiguous but presently has a shunt successful his chest.

After a backmost and distant with the prosecution, Judge Curtis Farber did regularisation that helium would stay astatine Bellevue Hospital's situation ward for the clip being alternatively of going backmost to Riker's Island wherever helium was being held due to the fact that "inattention carries precise existent risks that helium could find himself again successful a crisis."

The Manhattan DA did corroborate determination is simply a caller indictment with caller alleged victims and they are asking for these charges to beryllium consolidated with the archetypal indictment.

Weinstein's lawyers were not pleased.

"We don't cognize what the nonstop accusations are. No substance if you deliberation Harvey is the worst oregon best, it's not the mode our transgression justness strategy is expected to work. It's conscionable not," said Arthur Adala, attorney.

That indictment volition stay nether seal until the arraignment tentatively scheduled for adjacent Wednesday, Weinstein's attorneys can't warrant helium volition beryllium good enough.

A proceedings is tentatively scheduled for November.

Weinstein became the astir salient villain of the #MeToo movement, which took basal successful 2017 erstwhile women began to spell nationalist with accounts of his behavior.

At the archetypal trial, Weinstein was convicted of forcibly performing oral enactment connected a TV and movie accumulation adjunct successful 2006 and rape successful the 3rd grade for an onslaught connected an aspiring histrion successful 2013. Those allegations volition beryllium portion of his retrial. Weinstein's acquittals connected charges of predatory intersexual battle and first-degree rape inactive stand.

After the retrial, Weinstein is owed to commencement serving a 16-year condemnation successful California for a abstracted rape condemnation successful Los Angeles, authorities said. Weinstein was convicted successful Los Angeles successful 2022.

Weinstein, the co-founder of Miramax and The Weinstein Company movie studios, was erstwhile 1 of the astir almighty radical successful Hollywood, producing specified Oscar winners arsenic "Pulp Fiction" and "Shakespeare successful Love."

(ABC News and the Associated Press contributed to this report.)