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Detective In Harvey Weinstein Case Told Alleged Victim To Delete Information From Phone

October 18, 2018 | Posted by Joseph Lee

TMZ reports that prosecutors in the sexual assault case against Harvey Weinstein admitted that the lead detective told one of the alleged victims to remove information from her phone. The prosecution team sent a letter to Weinstein’s attorney Ben Brafman, letting him know what NYPD Detective Nicholas DiGaudio did. He talked with the victim prior to her sending her phone to the DA’s office.

The woman was worried about prosecutors seeing certain items on the phone, but it’s unknown if it was relevant to the case. In the letter, the prosecutors claimed that DiGaudio told her to delete anything she was worried about. He added: “We just won’t tell [the assistant D.A].

This comes after DiGaudio didn’t mention a witness statement to prosecutors in the Lucia Evans case, which led to the case getting dropped. However, the DA is still moving forward with this case.

Brafman said: “Only those totally uninformed would suggest that these are ‘technical’ issues. Nothing is further from the truth. The fact is that these issues undermine the fundamental integrity of the judicial process. This case is falling apart because it is a fundamentally bad case and bad cases eventually fall apart even when law enforcement officials try and stack the deck against the accused.

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