Harvey Weinstein to Face Charges in Los Angeles as Early as May

The producer faces more than a dozen counts of sexual assault involving five different women.

For a year, Harvey Weinstein has been fighting attempts to extradite him from a prison near Buffalo, N.Y., to Los Angeles, a city where he was once feted as a visionary film producer and now faces multiple charges of rape and sexual assault. On Friday, a New York judge said that Mr. Weinstein could be taken into custody by California authorities on May 30, unless his lawyer comes up with a new argument or Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York decides to weigh in to halt the extradition. Mr. Weinstein’s lawyer pledged to file a new motion to challenge the transfer. There has been no indication that Mr. Cuomo plans to intervene and a spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.