The company has gone through three sales vice presidents in six years and is dogged by ugly lawsuits and a criminal indictment for theft of trade secrets.
The abuse of power inherent to Weinstein's action was exposed in all its ugly irony on Sunday when the media revealed that Weinstein himself is under criminal investigation for illegally employing a foreign worker in his home.
This wouldn't be an ugly Willie Horton-type tactic intended to harvest fear and play on stereotypes about who is a criminal and who isn't, or -- in this case -- who uses drugs and who sells them?