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Lawsuit to Block Sale of Studio Could Hurt Weinstein's Victims

FILE -- Lawyer Kenneth Feinberg when he was running center the General Motors victim compensation program, during a meeting at his office in Washington, Oct. 21, 2014. Could the New York attorney general's lawsuit against the Weinstein Company, which upended a deal to sell it to a group of investors, actually end up hurting victims' chances for compensation? Feinberg says that protecting the value of a company in crisis is paramount to supporting the cost of paying victims. (Drew Angerer/The New York Times)