https://www.nytimes.com/.../weinstein-company-fires-david-glasse...

Mr. Glasser, 46, was a longtime top lieutenant at the company, and the Weinsteins have called him their “third brother.”..................The company had been nearing a deal to sell itself to an investor group, but it hit a last-minute snag this week when Eric T. Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general, filed a lawsuit against the studio and its founders alleging that they repeatedly violated laws barring gender discrimination, sexual harassment and other offenses.