Prosecutors Will Seek to Indict Weinstein on New Sex Crimes Charges

Manhattan prosecutors on Tuesday said they were “actively pursuing” additional allegations of sexual assault against the disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein ahead of a new trial that was likely to begin in the fall.

Nicole Blumberg, an assistant district attorney, said in Manhattan criminal court that her office had identified allegations of rape and sexual assault against Mr. Weinstein that had occurred within the statute of limitations, and that prosecutors planned to ask a grand jury to indict him. She said they were working in a “trauma-informed” manner with his accusers.

“In 2020, there were women who were not ready to proceed with the legal process,” she said. “Some of those women are now ready to proceed.”

When the judge in the case, Justice Curtis Farber, pressed for a date when a grand jury could hear new charges, Ms. Blumberg could not give one, but she said prosecutors could be prepared to go to trial by the fall, at one point indicating November.

It would be the second trial of Mr. Weinstein in New York involving charges of sex crimes. His 2020 conviction was overturned in April after the highest court in the state found that the presiding judge had erred by allowing prosecutors to call several accusers as witnesses, even though their allegations had not led to charges.

Shortly after, Alvin L. Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, said that his office would retry Mr. Weinstein even as the appeals court’s ruling limited prosecutors’ ability to use some of the evidence from the first trial.