Weinstein Hired Sleuths to Squelch Women’s Stories, D.A. Says

Harvey Weinstein hired the private intelligence agency Black Cube in 2017, a witness at his rape trial testified, a move prosecutors said was designed to spy on his accusers and kill news stories about him.

Dev Sen, Weinstein’s former lawyer at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP, testified on Thursday that the fallen Hollywood power broker had entered into a contract with Black Cube, but that was about all the judge let him tell the jury at the New York trial. Weinstein long employed David Boies and his firm to represent him on a host of issues, including negative press.

Before ...