The former film producer Harvey Weinstein, whose historic 2020 conviction for sexual crimes in New York was annulled two weeks ago, returned to Rikers prison after it was revealed that he had received alleged preferential treatment while he was admitted to Bellevue Hospital, according to the local media reported this Tuesday. The City. Both the prison and the medical center are located in New York City, where Weinstein was transferred once an appeals court overturned his sentence.

Weinstein (72 years old) was admitted to Bellevue two days before appearing in New York Supreme Court alleging medical problems and would have remained in a “private room” in the Intensive Care Unit from the hospital even after appearing in court. According to recent information from the aforementioned media, which would ultimately lead to Weinstein’s return to Rikers on Monday night, this would have been interned in a Bellevue facility away from other inmateswould have had his own bathroom and television and “spent the day talking to his legal team and watching CNN.”

Thus, the doctors evaluated the disgraced executive and determined that he did not need to continue being admitted to the hospital. Until his conviction in New York was overturned, the former producer was incarcerated at the Mohawk Correctional Facility, about 160 kilometers northwest of Albany, and practically after arriving at Rikers – a penitentiary center located on an island between The Bronx and Queens – He requested medical confinement due to “serious health problems,” according to his lawyer Arthur Aidala.

During his time in court last week, EFE was able to see that Weinstein looked pale and unwell, but he appeared emotionally stable and greeted several of the lawyers who defended him at trial with a slight smile.

Hours earlier, the surprise ruling of the appeals court had arrived, which approved the annulment by a slim majority of 4-3 judges, based on the fact that several women who considered themselves victims of the producer were improperly called to testify as witnesses, when the The accusations they made were not part of the facts being tried.

The former Hollywood figure He is still serving a 23-year sentence after being convicted of forcibly performing oral sex for Miriam “Mimi” Haley, a production assistant, in 2006, and for third-degree rape in an attack on Jessica Mann, an aspiring actress, in 2013.

After he was found guilty by a jury in March 2020, he was sent to Los Angeles for a trial there for other sex crimes and was again convicted. This time, 16 years in prison.