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Harvey Weinstein Loses Change-of-Venue Request for His Trial

Harvey Weinstein Loses Change-of-Venue Request for His Trial

(Bloomberg) -- An appellate court in Manhattan on Thursday denied Harvey Weinstein’s request to have his trial on sexual-assault charges moved out of New York City and to Albany or Suffolk Counties because of intense media coverage. The panel of five appeals-court judges also denied Weinstein’s bid to delay his trial.

To contact the reporter on this story: Patricia Hurtado in Federal Court in Manhattan at pathurtado@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Steve Stroth at sstroth@bloomberg.net;David Glovin at dglovin@bloomberg.net

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