Harvey Weinstein's lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, wants out of criminal case

Trial for the movie producer, facing rape and sexual assault charges, is set for May 6 in New York City

Harvey Weinstein's lawyer wants to quit the case, a source with direct knowledge told NBC News on Monday, which could delay the disgraced movie mogul's rape trial.

Defense attorney Benjamin Brafman would need Manhattan Supreme Court Justice James Burke's approval to leave the case, which is now set for trial on May 6.

Brafman was not expected to file those papers on Monday, but he has no intention of representing Weinstein any further, sources said. It wasn't immediately clear what led to the split, but reports recently surfaced indicating the two had been fighting.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/harvey-weinstein-s-lawyer-benjamin-brafman-wants-out-criminal-case-n958391

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noted

Gone: More cases emerge of Saudi students vanishing while facing Oregon charges

https://www.oregonlive.com//news/2019/01/gone-more-cases-emerge-of-saudi-students-vanishing-while-facing-oregon-charges.html

wtf

>>4760657

>WTF did Steve King say?

I still don't have a clue

Wendy Chaney

11 Indicted in 2016 Triple Murder to Silence D.E.A. Informant

Jan. 14, 2019

The crime scene was grisly. Three people, tied up with plastic zip ties, were shot execution style and set on fire inside a barn in a small town in rural Pennsylvania on a summer day two and a half years ago. One clung to life, but died the next day.

Now, the authorities say they have found the culprits behind the gangland-style killings.

In an indictment unsealed last week, 11 people who federal prosecutors said were members of the Black Guerrilla Family, a nationwide gang active in drug trafficking, murder and other crimes, were indicted in connection with the killings.

The authorities said the deaths began as part of a plot to silence a police informant that grew to include the killing of two others. The defendants have been charged with a range of crimes including murder, attempted murder, witness tampering, robbery, drug trafficking and illegal possession of a firearm by a felon.

One of the defendants, Jerell Adgebesan, was tied up one year after the killings by several other defendants who wanted to kill him because they suspected he was cooperating with law enforcement, according to the indictment. He has been charged with murder, witness tampering and drug trafficking.

The primary target of the killings was Wendy Chaney, who sold drugs for the gang — including cocaine hydrochloride, crack cocaine and heroin — in Franklin County, Pa., prosecutors said. They also said she was an informant for the Washington County Drug Task Force in Hagerstown, Md., part of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/pennsylvania-drug-gang-indictment.html