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Blood-Spattered & Underwear-Soiled Harvey Weinstein Sues NYC For $5M Over “Deplorable Conditions” At Rikers Island Jail
Violent conditions at Riker Island jail have left convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein covered in blood, soiled underwear & more a new lawsuit claims
Awaiting a new New York trial next year on more sex crimes charges, Harvey Weinstein seems to be wishing he was spending Thanksgiving behind bars at the Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo and not at Rikers Island. With no small degree of coincidence, Tuesday’s filing by Weinstein’s defense team comes as a federal judge today ruled NYC was in contempt for not adequately handling the brutality and growing violence at Rikers. In an often scathing 65-page ruling about ongoing failings of officials to get the aging facility back on track ASAP and the “civil contempt of eighteen provisions” already set out to help fix things, Judge Laura Taylor Swain indicated she was considering a return to direct Department of Justice oversight of Rikers.
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