Harvey Weinstein Adds 'Prison Consultant' to His Entourage

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/nyregion/harvey-weinstein-prison-consultant.html

During his monthlong trial, the film producer Harvey Weinstein was surrounded by an expansive, and expensive, entourage of advisers and assistants. He had four lawyers, a jury selection expert, a crisis manager and a spokesman. There was even an employee who made sure his court-ordered ankle monitor was functioning correctly.

But about three weeks ago, well before a jury found Mr. Weinstein guilty of two felony sex crimes, another paid professional was brought into his camp: a “prison consultant” named Craig Rothfeld.

Mr. Rothfeld’s private firm, Inside Outside Ltd., was created to help new inmates understand the details of what he calls “the journey”— the confusing and often frightening passage from living an ordinary life to living behind bars.

Minutes after Mr. Weinstein was convicted, the judge in his case, Justice James M. Burke, revoked his bail and ordered him to be sent at once to jail. But despite the ruling, Mr. Weinstein has so far been housed in a prison ward at the Bellevue Hospital Center, where he has been receiving treatment for chest pains, diabetes and high blood pressure, his spokesman, Juda Engelmayer, said.

Msut be nice to be rich enough to hire a 'prison consultant'. The article goes on to state that that Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide may be behind the decision to keep Weinstein at Bellevue instead of transferring him to Rikers.

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1. Life imitating art

I guess Kevin Hart was too busy

[shanti]

2. Put his ass in JAIL!

He's been in the hospital since his trial? Come on, if it was you or me this would never have happened! This is infuriating.

[Blue_playwright]

3. You forgot to put...

Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide In quotes:

Jeffrey Epstein’s “suicide“

That part of the article, sarcasm aside, is telling.

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4. Probably

another Epstein client/ supplier of young girls. I think he simply managed to pay a doctor or team of doctors to keep him in hospital so he doesn't go to jail. All those sex offenders are scared to death of being vulnerable.

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5. AhhhhHAHAHAHA! Oh, not a joke?

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6. He's dragging and screaming all the way to prison

No stoicism there. So much for being the big badass bully rapist. Exits with the least amount of bravery possible as he whimpers in terror, clutching pleadingly to his impotent people.