Harvey Weinstein 'is secretly indicted by LA grand jury on rape charges' - Daily Mail

The indictment came 'a couple of weeks ago' and closely resembles a criminal complaint filed in January 2020 by former DA Jackie Lacey, Fox News reported.

It will likely facilitate the disgraced movie mogul's extradition from New York, where he is already serving a 23-year sentence for rape and sexual assault.

Harvey Weinstein (pictured) was secretly indicted on rape charges by a grand jury in Los Angeles, according to a report.

An attorney for two of Weinstein's five accusers in the LA case declined to comment.  .

The LA case against Weinstein, 69, has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic but the DA's office reportedly did not want to wait any longer to proceed. .

Allred represents Mimi Haleyi, one of the women whose accusations Weinstein was found guilty of in his New York trial over a year ago. 

In the LA case, she is defending an unnamed woman as well as model and actress Lauren Young, who came forward as a witness in Weinstein's New York criminal trial

Regardless of the outcome of the LA case, Weinstein would have to return to New York to serve the remainder of his 23-year-sentence

Earlier this month, Weinstein filed an appeal on his rape and sex crimes conviction, claiming he didn't receive a fair trial and that the incidents were 'indisputably consensual' and that many of the women who gave evidence at his trial just think he is 'loathsome'

Weinstein was convicted of one count of criminal sexual assault in the first degree and one count of rape in the third degree last February. He was cleared of three other charges. He was sentenced on March 11.