Blood Spattered & Underwear Soiled Harvey Weinstein Sues NYC For $5M Over “Deplorable Conditions” At Rikers Island Jail As Federal Control Of Harsh Facility Looms

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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.

That’s certainly one of the takeaways from the long incarcerated and convicted rapist’s lawsuit of “no less than $5,000,000.00” against the city of New York and others over the conditions and medial services at the notoriously violent and decrepit 92-year-old jail. “This claim seeks monetary damages arising from negligence, carelessness, recklessness, gross negligence, medical malpractice, intentional and/or reckless and/or negligent deprivation of medical treatment, deprivation of civil and constitutional rights, and negligent and intentional torts committed by officers, agents, and employees of the New York City Department of Correction (“NYC DOC”), New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation (“NYC H+H”), Rikers Island Correctional Facility, and New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation/Bellevue (“Bellevue Hospital”),” exclaims the November 26 filing in New York state court from Weinstein’s Adala, Bertuna & Kamins lawyers (read Harvey Weinstein’s $5 million lawsuit over Rikers Island conditions here).

A point hit home today by one of Weinstein’s legal team. “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,” defense attorney Imran H.