PHILADELPHIA — Comedian Bill Cosby is seeking to hire a criminal defence lawyer as suburban prosecutors revisit a 2005 sexual-assault complaint against him. Lawyer Edwin Jacobs said late Tuesday that Cosby’s agents had contacted him in the past few days about a pending investigation in Montgomery County. Jacobs, who had represented Cosby in a review of another accuser’s complaint in New Jersey, said he referred Cosby’s agents to another high-profile Philadelphia-area lawyer. That other lawyer did not return message seeking comment late Tuesday. The Philadelphia Inquirer first reported Tuesday on Jacobs’ involvement in the case. Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman wouldn’t confirm her office is reinvestigating the complaint by former Temple University employee Andrea Constand. However, she said in a recent statement “prosecutors have a responsibility to review past conclusions … when current information might lead to a different decision.” Ferman’s predecessor, Bruce Castor, didn’t think the evidence was sufficient to charge Cosby with a crime in 2005. Since then, dozens of women have accused the “I Spy” actor of drugging and molesting them, echoing the accusations Constand first made public with her January 2005 complaint to police and her later civil lawsuit. In the civil suit, Constand said she had met Cosby through her job with the women’s basketball program at Temple, where Cosby served on the
↧