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CHRIS AND MARY.
NATALIE, THANK YOU.
5:03.
HARVEY WEINSTEIN SET TO BE
SENTENCED IN LOWER MANHATTAN
AFTER HIS CONVICTION ON RAPE
AND SEX ASSAULT CHARGES.
WEINSTEIN COULD FACE DECADES
IN PRISON.
CBS 2'S REENA ROY JOINS US FROM
OUTSIDE THE COURTHOUSE THIS
MORNING.
REENA.
Reporter: WEINSTEIN WILL BE
TRANSPORTED HERE TO CRIMINAL
COURT LATER THIS MORNING.
WHERE HE WILL LEARN HOW LONG
EXACTLY HE WILL SPEND IN PRISON
FOR FELONY SEX CRIMES.
HE FACES UP TO 29 YEARS.
HIS LAWYERS ARE ASKING FOR
FIVE.
THIS AS NEW DOCUMENTS WERE
UNSEALED IN HIS CASE.
NEW COURT DOCUMENTS REVEAL IN
2017 WHEN PUBLIC ALLEGATIONS
AGAINST HARVEY WEINSTEIN BEGAN,
HE ASKED SEVERAL INFLUENTIAL
PEOPLE FOR HELP.
INCLUDING MICHAEL BLOOMBERG AND
JEFF BEZOS.
IN ANOTHER E-MAIL, WEINSTEIN
WROTE, ACTRESS JENNIFER ANISTON
SHOULD BE KILLED IN RESPONSE TO
A TABLOID PAPER SEEKING TO
REPORT THE ACTRESS, WEINSTEIN
GROPED HER.
HE ALSO WROTE, I'M A SEX
ADDICT, I'M AN ANGER ADDICT,
AND I'M SUICIDAL.
THESE SHOCKING DETAILS RELEASED
JUST A DAY AFTER HE WAS TREATED
AT THE RIKERS ISLAND INFIRMARY
FOR THROBBING PAIN FROM FALLING
WITHOUT HIS WALKER AND HITTING
HIS HEAD.
WEINSTEIN WAS MOVED TO THE
PRISON LAST WEEK AFTER HAVING A
HEART PROCEDURE AT BELLEVUE
HOSPITAL.
WHERE HE SPENT THE INITIAL DAYS
FOLLOWING HIS CONVICTION IN
LATE FEBRUARY.
HE WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY OF THE
MOST SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST
HIM.
PREDATORY SEXUAL ASSAULT AND
NOT GUILTY OF RAPE IN THE FIRST
DEGREE.
BUT, HE WAS FOUND GUILTY OF
CRIMINAL SEXUAL ACT FOR FORCING
A SEX ACT ON HAILEY IN 2006 AT
HIS SOHO APARTMENT.
AND RAPE IN THE THIRD DEGREE
FOR THE ATTACK ON JESSICA MANN.
HE DIDN'T CRY, HE DIDN'T
BREAK DOWN.
HE WAS IN A STATE OF DISBELIEF.
HE JUST KEPT REPEATING, BUT I'M
INNOCENT.
WEINSTEIN IS A VICIOUS
SERIAL SEXUAL PREDATOR WHO USED
HIS POWER TO THREATEN, RAPE,
ASSAULT, TRICK, HUMILIATE, AND
SILENCE HIS VICTIMS.
THE GUILTY VERDICT, A
DEFINING MOMENT FOR THE ME TOO
MOVEMENT.
ONE OF HIS ACCUSERS, HAILEY,
SAID SHE IS THANKFUL FOR
JUSTICE.
I FELT JUST VERY GRATEFUL
THAT I HAD BEEN HEARD AND
BELIEVED.
I WAS JUST HUGE RELIEF.
Reporter: AND SENTENCING IS
SCHEDULED FOR 9:30 A.M.
IT COULD TAKE SEVERAL HOURS.
RIGHT NOW, IT IS STILL UNCLEAR
IF WEINSTEIN WILL SPEAK.
HE ALSO FACES CHARGES IN LOS
ANGELES AS WELL AS CIVIL
LAWSUITS.
WE ARE LIVE IN LOWER MANHATTAN