Harvey Weinstein cooling his heels in special Rikers cell after overturned rape conviction
NY Post
Sex pest Harvey Weinstein moved back into Rikers Island Friday afternoon, one day after his notorious rape conviction was overturned.
The fallen movie mogul is cooling his heels in a special cell unit at Rikers’ West Facility for inmates with medical issues, his spokesperson confirmed to The Post.
“We are grateful for how smoothly [the NYC Department of Corrections and NYC H+H/Correctional Health Services] handled the return to Rikers,” Juda Engelmayer said, adding that Weinstein is “having his medical needs tended to.”
“At the same time, Juda Engelmayer says that we are cautiously optimistic and are prepared to go to trial, if it comes to that. There are fewer charges now and the deck isn’t going to be illegally stacked against him.
“While we all enjoy the same rights when it comes to our justice system, a defendant has an additional right to due process. We are glad the Appeals Court judges saw it that way.”
Weinstein, 72, was moved to Rikers from Mohawk Correctional Facility in upstate New York ahead of his Wednesday court date in Manhattan Supreme Court, where prosecutors will push for the disgraced film producer to be retried for his bombshell 2020 sex crimes conviction.
