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Subject: DAILY BEAST: Manhattan D.A. Cy Vance Finally Got Harvey Weinstein, but He's Still Letting 
Women Down 
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 15:28:01 +0000 
Manhattan D.A. Cy 
Vance Finally Got 
Harvey Weinstein, but 
He's Still Letting Women 
Down 
The prosecutor who says in 2020 that "rape is rape and sexual assault is sexual assault," 
signed a memo on behalf of NY's DAs in 2013 opposing a bill that would've made that so. 
ALEXIS GRENELL 
Updated Mar. 06, 2020 7:00AM ET / Published Mar. 05, 2020 4:54AM ET 
Marissa Hoechstetter was sitting at her desk on the morning of June 28, 2018, when a blind number 
appeared on her cell phone. She picked up and her stomach dropped: "This is Cyrus Vance calling from 
Manhattan." 
A week earlier, after repeatedly requesting to speak to the Manhattan District Attorney, Hoechstetter 
had had a one-hour conversation with one of his top deputies regarding the obstetrician who'd licked 
her vagina and sexually assaulted at least 18 other patients. The conversation was about the settlement 
the DA's office reached with Dr. Robert Hadden in 2016 to surrender his medical license and plead 
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guilty to a single felony count of third-degree criminal sexual act and misdemeanor forcible touching in 
exchange for prosecutors agreeing not to prosecute the other crimes they were aware of, or pursue 
prison time, even though they had grand jury testimony from victims—including Evelyn Yang—eager 
to go to trial. The assistant DA who'd called Hoechstetter—the same one who Vance later said "made a 
mistake" in asking to downgrade Jeffrey Epstein's sex offender status in 2011, which a judge denied—
successfully negotiated for Hadden to receive a lesser sex offender status than guidelines indicated, 
keeping his name out of a publicly accessible database. 
Unsatisfied with both the outcome and the deputy, Hoechstetter continued to send emails requesting 
to speak to the man h…
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