Police say a photographer and one-time contestant on "The Dating Game" was also a chameleon and a serial killer perhaps the deadliest in U.S. history and investigators are unsure if they will ever know how many victims he left behind
His victims are outraged, as they should be. But it is the prosecutors and the judge in this case who should be the objects of their rage and contempt.
Several of us were shocked, but maybe not surprised, by the reporting around Linda Fairstein yesterday (by
Huffington Post). It’s a great example of why we need the Adults Survivors Act, Marissa Hoechstetter told
Capital Tonight. That story really hit home to me, Hoechstetter continued. It echoed my experience, reporting sexual assault to the DA’s office and finding out afterward that there were campaign contributions and other things that let my perpetrator really get away with it.
Hoechstetter was among 19 other women who
accusedgynecologist Robert Hadden of sexual abuse while he examined them.
Under a 2015 plea deal, Hadden would give up his medical license, but he would serve no jail time, and wouldn’t be listed on New York’s sex offender registry.
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Messages show the former prosecutor helping well-connected New Yorkers navigate her old sex crimes unit.
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Linda Fairstein attends the Love Rocks NYC Pre-Concert Cocktail at CESCA Restaurant on March 15, 2018, in New York City.
In 2015, when Harvey Weinstein had his first close shave with law enforcement, his legal team enlisted Linda Fairstein, the former New York City sex crimes prosecutor, to vouch for them with her old colleagues.
It looks like they weren’t alone.
Emails released to HuffPost this week through a public records request show that Fairstein, who quit as head of the sex crimes unit in 2002, and her successor, Martha Bashford, maintained a close friendship that opened the door for Fairstein to weigh in on ongoing cases. Fairstein denies her involvement was ultimately meaningful.