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New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman filed suit Sunday against Harvey Weinstein, his brother Bob Weinstein and the film production company over which they once lorded seeking “to remedy a years-long gender-based hostile work environment, a pattern of quid pro quo sexual harassment, and routine misuse of corporate resources for unlawful ends. ”

Weinstein and his ex- business-partner brother violated numerous state codes against sexual harassment, intimidation, and other workplace safety protections, according to Schneiderman.

If or when The Weinstein Company is sold or liquidated, victims of abuse deserve a cut of the action, according to the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.

“As alleged in our complaint, The Weinstein Company repeatedly broke New York law by failing to protect its employees from pervasive sexual harassment, intimidation, and discrimination,” Schneiderman said in a prepared statement.

“Any sale of The Weinstein Company must ensure that victims will be compensated, employees will be protected going forward, and that neither perpetrators nor enablers will be unjustly enriched. Every New Yorker has a right to a workplace free of sexual harassment, intimidation, and fear.”

Schneiderman’s office said there’s a clear paper trail of on-the-record complaints to the company’s human resources department that were simply ignored.

For years, assistants working for Weinstein “were exposed to and required to facilitate” sexual encounters for him “as a condition of employment,” according to the AG.

The office also said, “drivers in both New York City and Los Angeles were required to keep condoms and erectile dysfunction injections in the car at all times, in order to provide them to (Weinstein) as needed.”

A rep for Harvey Weinstein could not be immediately reached for comment on Sunday.