new fallout this morning from the scandal surrounding harvey weinstein. the number of women accusing him of sexual misconduct continues to grow. scotland yard is reportedly investigating weinstein. received a report wednesday about an alleged sexual assault in the united kingdom from the 1980s. also developing, another board member of the weinstein company is out. a source in a position to know tells nbc news richard koenigsberg is the latest to step down. he s among four other member who have resigned since the scandal surfaced. variety reports some board members are pushing for the company to be sold while others say they want to stay and try to weather the storm despite business partners bailing and debt piling up. i want to bring in msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos.
dollar than what they re owed. they have to look carefully at the assets and the business as what s called a goirng concern. what is its viability in the future and is it worth the trouble of reorganization. that s a tough question in a company with this sort of reputational damage. can they live off of their laurels in the past to say we can still attract good money and movies or is that too damaged. now we have another unrelated but interesting story. amazon has suspended one of its hollywood executives kaccused o sexual harassment. roy price was accused of making graphic and unwarranted sexual remarks back in twvtz to isa hackett. first reported the accusations back in august. the site reports there was an investigation but no information about any results. yesterday amazon announced it was suspending price after
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hackett went public with details in an interview. in a statement, it was said row price is on leave of absence effective immediately. joining me is editor and chief of the information. thank you for being with us. first of all, what s the connection between roy price and amazon and then b weinstein company? or are they just putting them into the same press release? so there s two connections. the first is that yesterday rose mcgowan also accused roy price of basically covering up or not taking action on her allegations against harvey weinstein. amazon has projects with the wine steen company. there s a conflict there as well. they re also entangled in
york but particularly california, there is automatic, strict liability for a company when a supervisor like harvey weinstein harasses an employee, sexually harasses an employee. we ll put up a screen of those on the board. harvey weinstein and his brother ran successful companies that created great films. that won a lot of awards. and in theory, that s the kind of thing that makes money. now with weinstein out, there are people who are saying maybe this company can t even survive reputationally it can t make films. it can t attract the capital it needs. people won t want to touch it. yet there s some creativity possibly and value in some parts of that company. they have a difficult decision to make. they may want to consider chapter 11, reorganization. it means they reorganize. they negotiate their outstanding debts and try to get people to accept a little less on the