"Bloodhound" Ex-NYPD Officer is Harvey Weinstein's "Secret Weapon"

Harvey Weinstein’s “secret weapon” in his legal defense arsenal is a former NYPD detective who worked in the very Manhattan district in which the disgraced mogul is being tried.

Herman Weisberg is the “bloodhound” investigator whose specialty is hunting down potential witnesses and getting them to talk. Weisberg has made himself a go-to fixer for Hollywood when movers and shakers have a need to shut down a blackmail or extortion ploy, The Daily Beast reported.

“Whatever success I may have in the Weinstein case, Herman has played a substantial part in those accomplishments,” the accused rapist’s defense attorney, Benjamin Brafman, told the news site.

Weisberg has been instrumental in getting a number of witnesses discredited by Weinstein’s legal team, according to The Daily Beast, including a key dismissal just last week which involved what may be evidence tampering by a current police officer.

“Herman is the guy in the field,” said Jeremy Saland, who worked with Weisberg in the Manhattan D.A.’s office when he was a prosecutor. “He’s the one who’s the knock at the door you don’t want at the break of dawn or late at night. You don’t want Herman and one of his colleagues standing at your doorstep.”