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Harvey in the "Gulag": lawyers file complaint against NYC for poor medical care and dire conditions at Rikers Island

The disgraced film mogul is set to be retried on sex crimes charges next year.

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers filed a legal claim Tuesday against New York City, alleging the disgraced Hollywood mogul is receiving poor medical care and living in an unhygienic environment at the Rikers Island jail complex.

The notice of claim, a legal document that must be submitted before a lawsuit is formally filed, accuses the city and the facility of negligently failing to provide Weinstein with “timely and adequate” medical treatment and “the most basic human needs,” including clean clothes and “hygienic living conditions.”

Weinstein’s medical issues include chronic myeloid leukemia, diabetes, coronary artery disease, obstructive sleep apnea, obesity and high blood pressure, among other diagnoses, according to the legal filing. He was hospitalized in April and July, and he had emergency heart surgery in September, according to a representative.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the New York City mayor's office said the public hospital system works with the Department of Correction to "ensure people in custody have access to high-quality health care on Rikers Island, including individuals who have complex medical and mental health needs."

In a lengthy statement accompanying the seven-page filing, Weinstein’s lawyer, Imran H. Ansari, compared the Rikers Island facility to “a gulag where the prisoners are treated like animals.”

“When I last visited him, I found him with blood spatter on his prison garb, possibly from IV’s, clothes that had not been washed for weeks, and he had not even been provided clean underwear — hardly sanitary conditions for someone with severe medical conditions and susceptibility to illness,” Ansari said.

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by Anonymousreply 3November 28, 2024 12:03 AM

Rich criminals have their own set of rules.

by Anonymousreply 1November 27, 2024 9:14 PM

I don't think Harvey is a stranger to unclean underwear.

by Anonymousreply 2November 27, 2024 11:59 PM

good for him.

by Anonymousreply 3November 28, 2024 12:03 AM
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