DA won’t try finance crime case vs. Harv

Manhattan prosecutors have given up on bringing financial crime charges against disgraced Hollywood movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, sources tell the Daily News.

Financial crime charges would have added to a sex assault case now pending against Weinstein (above left, with lawyer Benjamin Brafman) in Manhattan Supreme Court. But such a case was always a long shot, The News’ sources say.

Weinstein lawyer Ben Brafman said word that the DA’s office “has officially closed their investigation does not surprise me in the least.”

“I have been explaining to them for almost a year that this inquiry was a mindless voyage as Mr. Weinstein never defrauded any company or person and always paid his own bills, or after the fact, by agreement, reimbursed the company for any personal expense,” Brafman said.

“Had they listened to me early on, it would have saved the district attorney a lot of time and money,” Brafman said.

A spokesman for Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr.’s office declined comment Sunday.

In a financial crime case, Weinstein could have been accused of using his company’s money to further his alleged sex assaults.

At the time of Weinstein’s arrest in May, Manhattan prosecutors were actively reviewing Weinstein Co. financial records. But even in the case’s early stages, financial charges were unlikely, sources said.

The DA’s office has never mentioned the possibility of bringing such a case in recent court hearings.

In early July, the DA’s office filed an indictment against Weinstein on charges of predatory sex assault, rape and criminal sex act relating to three accusers.

At a hearing in October, the DA’s office dropped a criminal sex act charge involving ex-actress Lucia Evans, who claimed Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him in 2004.

At that hearing, Manhattan Assistant DA Joan Illuzzi said the prosecution was moving “full steam ahead” on other aspects of the Weinstein case.