Harvey Weinstein tested positive for coronavirus while incarcerated at a maximum security prison in upstate New York, according to a report from a local news outlet
Harvey Weinstein. Photo: Scott Heins/Getty Images Harvey Weinstein has been placed in isolation at New York’s Wende Correctional Facility after testing positive for coronavirus, according to a report from CNHI newspapers, published in the Niagara Gazette.
Michael Powers, president of the New York State Correctional Officers and Police Benevolent Association, declined CNHI’s request for comment, citing privacy rules. Still, he did acknowledge that “there is no better breeding ground for this virus than a closed environment such as a correctional facility.” And indeed, as of Wednesday, Rikers had confirmed a total of 38 COVID-19 diagnoses among inmates and corrections officers.
In late February, after deliberating for almost 30 hours, a Manhattan jury found Weinstein guilty of committing a criminal sexual act in the first degree and rape in the third degree. Although at least 100 women have publicly accused the film producer of sexual misconduct, only six of his accusers testified at trial. Shortly after it ended, he underwent heart surgery at Bellevue Hospital.
Weinstein was sentenced two weeks after the jury delivered its verdict, and quickly returned to Bellevue over “ongoing heart problems and chest pains,” his camp told Deadline in mid-March. Asked on Sunday about Weinstein’s alleged coronavirus diagnosis, his spokesperson, Juda Engelmayer, told the Daily Beast that “our team… has not heard anything like that yet.”
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