Weinstein Company board reportedly knew about payoffs to women since 2015
Bob Weinstein
Co-chairman Bob Weinstein and chief operating officer David Glasser  who has been expected to move into the CEO role as the company confronts a post-Harvey future  told employees in a video conference that they were completely blindsided by the waves of reports documented by the Times and the New Yorker.
Lance Maerov  the board member who handled the contract negotiations  said in an interview with the Times that he had been told of settlements  but said that he had assumed they were used to cover up consensual affairs. Glasser declined to comment to the newspaper  as did  Bob Weinstein . Tarak Ben Ammar and Richard Koenigsberg  the other members of the board  did not respond to messages from the Times.
Ben Ammar told French television on Wednesday night that  Weinstein  had “violated the charter and we fired him within the hour.” The Franco-Tunisian businessman was referring to the company’s code of conduct that employees of TWC sign which covers “verbal  physical  sexual and racist aggression.” He told news channel LCI that he couldn’t speak about the ongoing investigation convened by the board  but said the company has “proof.” He did not elaborate.
He also noted that  Weinstein  re-signed the code of conduct in 2015 after revelations that he had groped Italian model Ambra Battilana Guttierez. An audio recording  captured when Gutierrez worked with New York City police and wore a wire in a subsequent encounter with  Weinstein   proved damning but did not result in any charges as prosecutors declined to move forward with a case  citing insufficient evidence.
Co-chairman [TGT] and chief operating officer David Glasser  who has been expected to move into the CEO role as the company confronts a post-Harvey future  told employees in a video conference that they were completely blindsided by the waves of reports documented by the Times and the New Yorker.
Lance Maerov  the board member who handled the contract negotiations  said in an interview with the Times that he had been told of settlements  but said that he had assumed they were used to cover up consensual affairs. Glasser declined to comment to the newspaper  as did  [TGT] . Tarak Ben Ammar and Richard Koenigsberg  the other members of the board  did not respond to messages from the Times.
Ben Ammar told French television on Wednesday night that  Weinstein  had “violated the charter and we fired him within the hour.” The Franco-Tunisian businessman was referring to the company’s code of conduct that employees of TWC sign which covers “verbal  physical  sexual and racist aggression.” He told news channel LCI that he couldn’t speak about the ongoing investigation convened by the board  but said the company has “proof.” He did not elaborate.
He also noted that  Weinstein  re-signed the code of conduct in 2015 after revelations that he had groped Italian model Ambra Battilana Guttierez. An audio recording  captured when Gutierrez worked with New York City police and wore a wire in a subsequent encounter with  Weinstein   proved damning but did not result in any charges as prosecutors declined to move forward with a case  citing insufficient evidence.