A bankruptcy judge denied Harvey Weinstein’s request for permission to identify the senders of a set of emails he says would aid his defense against criminal charges, WSJ Pro Bankruptcy reported. The email issue arose in bankruptcy court because the computer servers on which they are stored are the property of Weinstein Co., Weinstein’s former entertainment studio, which filed for chapter 11 after several women publicly accused him of sexual assault. “I’m not going to let you use the actual names,” Bankruptcy Judge Mary Walrath told Weinstein’s lawyer yesterday. She also ordered him to notify lawyers representing the women who sent the emails that Weinstein plans to use them. Read more.
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