…from Press TV, Tehran

[ Editor’s Note: There is an old saying, “It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy”, that has to be edited into “It was long due to this worthless predator”. I had not been aware of his brother’s scathing condemnation, see at end below, and a salute goes out to him.

But while Weinstein’s victims finally got some justice, there is a legion more, similarly victimized by other Hollywood and entertainment moguls who have not. I would have lost a good sized bet that the prosecution list of similar show business predator abuse would have grown during this long drawn out trial.

To all of the similar victims out there who never got justice, maybe they can see their ownership of a little piece of this one. Prince Andrew has completely hunkered down now, refusing any cooperation with the Epstein investigation.



But his dodging what he may be deserving has to be compared to what federal officials allowed to happen to Epstein, who was an obvious assassination target and never should have been put in a normal prison situation without special 24 hour security.

Those who failed to do this in the Justice Department have cast a long shadow that they were compromised when they allowed Epstein to be disposed of. The reason is screamingly obvious. If he went down, he could have taken a lot of people with him.

America was cheated, not only by Epstein, but by those who greased the skids for his demise to protect a small army of other Weinsteins that are still out there enjoying the good life. What a shame Jim W. Dean ]

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“Ah…the good ole days”

– First published … March 11, 2020 –

Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison on Wednesday following his sexual assault and rape conviction last month in a case hailed as a victory for the #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct.

The sentence was handed down in Manhattan criminal court by Justice James Burke, who presided over Weinstein’s trial.

A jury on Feb. 24 found Weinstein, 67, guilty of sexually assaulting former production assistant Mimi Haleyi and raping former aspiring actress Jessica Mann.

Once one of Hollywood’s most influential producers, Weinstein had faced the possibility of a maximum sentence of 29 years in prison.

During the sentencing hearing, prosecutor Joan Illuzzi asked Burke to impose 25 years or “near” 25 years in prison for his conviction on a charge of criminal sexual act in the first degree involving Haleyi and to impose a consecutive sentence for the third-degree rape conviction involving Mann.

That charge called for up to four years in prison, but the prosecution made no specific request. Weinstein, wearing a suit, and the six women who testified against Weinstein were in court for the proceedings.

In an emotional statement in court, Haleyi spoke of the trauma she had endured since the attack, saying, “It scarred me deeply, mentally and emotionally, perhaps irreparably, perhaps forever.”

Prosecutors in court filings last week said the sentence should reflect not only the crimes of which he was convicted, but a “lifetime of abuse towards others.”

More than 100 women, including famous actresses, have accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct stretching back decades, fueling the #MeToo movement against sexual abuse and harassment.

Weinstein has denied the allegations and said that any sex was consensual.

The jury of seven men and five women acquitted Weinstein on the most serious charges, a single count of first-degree rape as well as two counts of predatory sexual assault, which carried a potential life sentence.

Those charges relied on testimony by actress Annabella Sciorra, who said Weinstein raped her in the early 1990s.

Weinstein’s lawyers on Monday urged Burke to impose the minimum possible sentence of five years, asking him to consider Weinstein’s charitable activities while saying a longer sentence would likely mean Weinstein would die in prison.

“His life story, his accomplishments, and struggles are simply remarkable and should not be disregarded in total because of the jury’s verdict,” they said.

Weinstein has been awaiting sentencing in New York’s Rikers Island jail, where he was moved last Thursday after a 10-day hospital stay at Bellevue Hospital where he underwent a procedure to clear a heart blockage.

He was a powerful figure in Hollywood and a contributor to Democratic candidates. He won an Academy Award for producing “Shakespeare in Love” and was responsible for other acclaimed films including “Pulp Fiction,” “The English Patient” and “Gangs of New York.”

Prosecutors portrayed Weinstein as a serial predator who had manipulated women with promises of career advancement in Hollywood, coaxing them to hotel rooms or private apartments and then overpowering and violently attacking them.

Haleyi testified at the trial that Weinstein invited her to his home in 2006 after she had worked on one of his television productions, backed her into a bedroom, held her down on the bed and forced himself on her orally.

Mann told jurors that Weinstein raped her in a Manhattan hotel room in March 2013, about a month into what she described as an “extremely degrading” relationship with him that continued for several years after the attack. Mann called Weinstein a “Jekyll and Hyde” character,  charming in public but prone to rage when they were alone.

Weinstein’s lawyers argued during the trial that the six women who testified against him were reframing consensual encounters as assaults out of regret.

In Friday’s filing, prosecutors listed more than a dozen accusations going back to 1978, when they said he sexually assaulted an employee of his Buffalo, New York-based music company in a hotel room.

Court documents unsealed on Monday included an email to Weinstein from his estranged brother, Bob Weinstein, telling him he belonged in hell.

“U deserve a lifetime achievement award,” Bob Weinstein wrote in the November 2017 message, “for the sheer savagery and immorality and inhumaneness, for the acts u have perpetrated.”

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6 COMMENTS

  1. He should share cells with pedophiles to help him get rid of his back problems so he can be free of his walker. However, the lobby will probably ensure he gets treated very well. Or, they might even do another Epstein type suicide where all cameras fail to detect the body switch and the flight to Tel Aviv!

  2. Harvey’s just the tip of a very dirty and ugly iceberg. As I’ve written before the reason they went after him was because many of his movies were controversial and had substance like Wind River mentioned earlier ,Pulp Fiction and Gangs of New York which shows the dark side of the so called “Great Emancipator” . Not the usual mindless shlock or pro-war agitprop.

    Seems that Harvey was more a sacrificial lamb than an effort at actual justice.

  3. Lights! Cameras! Action! Richers Breakout, take One….

    “Roll out the Arkancide Harvey body double….
    Harvey, take stage exit left to Paraguay”

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