From the New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro. This is The Daily.

Yesterday, we heard the story of Lucia Evans, whose allegation against Harvey Weinstein,

helped launch the criminal trial that got underway this week in Manhattan.

When prosecutors dropped her from the case, it raised questions about how a man accused of sexual misconduct

by more than 80 women could end up facing so few of them in court.

Today, in part two, my colleagues, Judy Cantor and Megan Tuey, on what happened next.

It's Friday, January 10.

When we left off, Lucia Evans' criminal charge against Harvey Weinstein had just been dropped.

Where does that leave the case against Weinstein?

Okay, so remember, we're now in the fall of 2018, Lucia's out.

So the prospect of Harvey Weinstein being held criminally accountable seems to now hinge on just two

women. One woman has a story of sexual assault, the other woman has a story of rape.

So everything in this case pretty much revolves around these two women. So who exactly are they?

So one, the one with a story of sexual assault is Mimi Halei. She was added to the case right

before Lucia Evans was dropped. And what is her story? So Mimi Halei works in the entertainment

industry in the early 2000s. She's pretty junior and she ends up meeting Harvey Weinstein at the

Cannes Film Festival in France. And it's exciting. She's young, she wants opportunity,

and they continue to keep in touch because she wants work. So they have a series of meetings

in New York and eventually he invites her to his home. And as far as what happens next,

she actually tells the story in a press conference with Gloria Allred.

It was not long though before he was all over me making sexual advances. I told him no, no, no,

but he insisted. And then I said, I'm on my period. There is no way this is going to happen.

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