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Harvey Weinstein transferred to maximum-security prison in upstate New York

The former producer has been sentenced to 23 years in prison.

HARVEY WEINSTEIN HAS been transferred to a state prison in New York as he begins to serve his sentence for rape and sexual assault, according to officials. 

Weinstein, once one of Hollywood’s most powerful men, was sentenced to 23 years in prison by a judge in New York last week after being convicted of assaulting a production assistant at his apartment in 2006, and third-degree rape of another woman in 2013.

The former producer, who turns 68 today, is locked up at the maximum-security Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo, according to state prison officials.

Weinstein attended college nearby and got his start in the entertainment business in the area as a concert promoter bringing the likes of Frank Sinatra and the Rolling Stones to town.

The prison, six hours by car from Manhattan, is likely just a temporary stop but one that Weinstein’s spokesman called “harsh”.

Weinstein will be evaluated there to determine which state prison facility meets his security, medical, mental health and other needs.

Weinstein had been splitting time between New York City’s notorious Rikers Island prison complex and a Manhattan hospital after he had a stent inserted to unblock an artery following his guilty verdict.

Meanwhile, prosecutors in Los Angeles have started the extradition process to bring Weinstein to California after he was charged in January with one felony count each of forcible rape, forcible oral copulation, sexual penetration by use of force and sexual battery by restraint.

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    Mute Football in the Groin
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    Mar 19th 2020, 7:02 AM

    One of his spokesmen said transferring here was “harsh”? Maybe he shouldn’t have raped some people then?

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    Mute John Considine
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    Mar 19th 2020, 10:36 AM

    @Football in the Groin: He won’t last a year in an American max. Either they isolate him and he cracks or they put him in Genpop and he gets broken in other ways.

    Couldn’t happen to a nicer fella.

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    Mute ITK
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    Mar 19th 2020, 11:52 AM

    @Football in the Groin: From all men Of say they agree it’s embarrassing him going around with a walking frame that he didn’t need before all these charges. Just be a man for once it and take the charges.

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    Mute Sean Fahey
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    Mar 19th 2020, 9:38 PM

    @John Considine: He would never be put in general population. He does get special protection as a celebrity but it’s because it’s a certainty that some thug doing 20 to life will want to make a name for himself.

    Like it or not, he’s going to be in a 6 x 8 cell on his own for the rest of his life.

    You’re a millionaire celebrity movie producer in L.A., I don’t care if you look like a diseased walrus, that town is full of beautiful shallow ladies who’ll do whatever it takes to further their careers, you could have gone without the surprise sex, mate.

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    Mute Leo Sharkey
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    Mar 20th 2020, 12:50 AM

    @John Considine: There is a certain brotherhood from texas looking for him.They will eat him alive…

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    Mute tottkingham
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    Mar 19th 2020, 7:13 AM

    Proper order. Oh, happy birthday Harv!

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    Mute David O Brien
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    Mar 19th 2020, 7:20 AM

    About time he has been put away. Took long enough

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    Mute Thewestisbest
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    Mar 19th 2020, 9:09 AM

    Meanwhile the two lads who mowed down the poor lady here in Ireland, making their getaway from an armed robbery, will get…..?

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    Mute Stan Kowalskis
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    Mar 19th 2020, 10:27 AM

    @Thewestisbest: that just makes me sick everytime i hear about it.i know what id do if i was related to the person knocked down.

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    Mar 19th 2020, 11:33 AM

    @Thewestisbest: did they catch them?

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    Mute LeoVaradsCar
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    Mar 19th 2020, 7:23 AM

    I suspect this is to protect the millionaire rap1st from Covid-19 rather than punish him. I’d put him somewhere else, maybe somewhere where it’s spreading…

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    Mar 19th 2020, 8:18 AM

    Are they going to make a film about him…. now that would be ironic.. don’t you think.

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    Mute Ger
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    Mar 19th 2020, 9:55 AM

    @windbag: a little too ironic. Yeah I really do think.

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    Mar 19th 2020, 10:23 AM

    @windbag: almost like there being a no smoking sign….on my cigarette break

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    Mar 19th 2020, 8:18 AM

    He’ll be out in 22 years with good behaviour.

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    Mar 19th 2020, 9:21 AM

    @Diarmuid Walshe: That’s ok then, because he obviously can’t behave.

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    Mar 19th 2020, 9:38 AM

    @Diarmuid Walshe: Word has it that he’s singing like a Canary & a lot of his former political, business and Hollywood buddies sweating bullets, interesting few week ahead.

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    Mar 20th 2020, 10:22 PM

    @Diarmuid Walshe: If you dig him up

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    Mar 19th 2020, 10:07 AM

    His sphincter will be doing a long stretch too.

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    Mar 19th 2020, 8:09 AM

    It’s called a penthouse there ye go again giving the rich top class treatment

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    Mar 19th 2020, 11:56 AM

    Nasty guy, but why waste money putting him in maximum security? He’s hardly a dangerous prisoner or an escape risk. Putting people like El Chapo in max security makes sense. If harsh punishment is what they want, then a lower security prison with regular beatings or hard labour would be equally effective and cheaper.

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    Mar 19th 2020, 8:17 AM

    Goodbye harveys arse.

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    Mar 19th 2020, 7:56 AM

    He should be hung in public

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