Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has tested positive for the coronavirus in prison — and most likely contracted the disease at Rikers Island, an official briefed on the matter told The Post on Sunday.
Weinstein, 68, is being held in isolation at the Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo, where he tested positive on Saturday, the official said.
The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision wouldn’t confirm or deny Weinstein’s condition, citing federal health-care privacy law, but said that two inmates at Wende had the coronavirus.
Weinstein — who was sentenced earlier this month to 23 years in prison for sexually assaulting two women — is believed to have been infected at Rikers, where he was briefly locked up before being transferred to Wende on Wednesday, the official said.
New York City has experienced the nation’s largest jailhouse outbreak of coronavirus, with at least 38 inmates — including at Rikers — testing positive, the Associated Press reported Sunday.
Weinstein granted permission for his lawyers and a prison consultant to obtain his medical information, but none of them have been told he has the coronavirus, spokesman Juda Engelmayer said.
Weinstein was tested at Bellevue Hospital when he developed a cough there while being treated for a spike in his blood pressure following his March 11 sentencing, a source familiar with the matter told The Post.
Weinstein told an associate that he was kept in quarantine for “a few days” and was sent to Rikers on Monday after he tested negative, the source said.
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(Laughing)
He’s catching the hoax-train to pissrael.
“but said that two inmates at Wende had the coronavirus.”
In any case, I’m curious, how is a guy who is supposed to be locked up and away from all life and any form of congregation, mind you, able to get infected with the Coronavirus?
Doesn’t this prove that quarantines and no congregating DO NOT help in fighting or preventing the Coronavirus?
He’s a relative biggy, and gets special treatment regardless what the media says. I’m thinking he “dies” and a body is buried while he’s really in israel having penis-alota with his fruity buddies. Besides, anymore we’re all guinea pigs to some degree until these parasites are evicted.
How many licks does it take to get as many pedos locked up before a full blown panic is achieved ?
Let’s find out
A 1 A2 A3…..crunch
Harvey didnt kill himself