Deception and Ruses Fill the Toolkit of Investigators Used by Weinstein
- 6 years ago
Deception and Ruses Fill the Toolkit of Investigators Used by Weinstein
When asked about the approaches to West Face employees, Black Cube said in a statement
that its policy was “to never discuss its clients with any third party, and to never confirm or deny any speculation made regarding the company’s work.”
Despite its work for Mr. Weinstein, the company said it “does not accept any work concerning family disputes or sexual harassment cases.” The firm, which has offices in London, Paris
and Tel Aviv, said it would donate any profits from its work for Mr. Weinstein to groups that support victims of sexual harassment.
In a court filing in Toronto on Wednesday as part of a legal dispute between two Canadian financial firms, an employee for West Face Capital, a hedge fund, described how she was recruited by a woman who identified herself as Maja Lazarov
and said she worked for a London recruitment firm called Casear & Company.
In court filings, lawyers for West Face Capital suggest the client is Catalyst Capital, a large Canadian private equity
firm, with which West Face has been embroiled in bitter litigation for several years over investment decisions.
The contract under which Black Cube worked for Mr. Weinstein — signed in July by his lawyer David Boies — provided for deceptive techniques
that included the hiring of “an investigative journalist” who was to conduct 40 interviews over four months as part of a scheme intended, in part, to block the publication of a New York Times article about Mr. Weinstein’s decades of sexual misconduct.
When asked about the approaches to West Face employees, Black Cube said in a statement
that its policy was “to never discuss its clients with any third party, and to never confirm or deny any speculation made regarding the company’s work.”
Despite its work for Mr. Weinstein, the company said it “does not accept any work concerning family disputes or sexual harassment cases.” The firm, which has offices in London, Paris
and Tel Aviv, said it would donate any profits from its work for Mr. Weinstein to groups that support victims of sexual harassment.
In a court filing in Toronto on Wednesday as part of a legal dispute between two Canadian financial firms, an employee for West Face Capital, a hedge fund, described how she was recruited by a woman who identified herself as Maja Lazarov
and said she worked for a London recruitment firm called Casear & Company.
In court filings, lawyers for West Face Capital suggest the client is Catalyst Capital, a large Canadian private equity
firm, with which West Face has been embroiled in bitter litigation for several years over investment decisions.
The contract under which Black Cube worked for Mr. Weinstein — signed in July by his lawyer David Boies — provided for deceptive techniques
that included the hiring of “an investigative journalist” who was to conduct 40 interviews over four months as part of a scheme intended, in part, to block the publication of a New York Times article about Mr. Weinstein’s decades of sexual misconduct.