Convicted rapist Harvey Weinstein, a top Hollywood movie producer until the story of his long trail of victims ended his career, has the Wuhan Virus that has paralyzed the country.
The convicted sex fiend is now in isolation in his cell at a prison in western New York.
On March 11, Weinstein, 68, landed a 23-year prison term that could well turn into a life sentence. He was convicted a raping one woman and a sex crime against another.
But Weinstein is just one of a number of celebrities, famous athletes, politicians, and other public figures who have the virus.
Virus and a Walker
Weinstein tested positive and “is being isolated at Wende Correctional Facility in Western New York, officials told CNHI Sunday,” the Niagara Gazette reported late yesterday afternoon.
The prison is about 21 miles northeast of Buffalo.
Another inmate at the facility also tested positive, the officials told the newspaper, and they think “Weinstein was positive for the virus when he entered the state prison system last Wednesday from Rikers Island, a New York City jail.”
That, of course, means the contagion is spreading through the city’s notorious lockup, which is an intake station for inmates that land at other prisons.
The Wuhan Virus isn’t Weinstein’s only health issue. He showed up for trial using a walker like a feeble old man, which attorneys attributed to unsuccessful back surgery. After he was convicted in late February, he landed in the hospital with chest pains.
Prison officials are, of course, worried, the newspaper reported.
The union that represents correctional officers wants “state corrections officials to immediately suspend all ‘non essential’ transfers of inmates from one state facility to another as well as the transporting of local jail prisoners to the state prisons during the ongoing health emergency.”
“There is no better breeding ground for this virus than a closed environment such as a correctional facility,” an official told the Gazette.
And “three state corrections officers are among those who have tested positive and numerous officers throughout the system are being monitored after coming in contact with people believed to have been infected.”
The state is monitoring 58 officers, the newspaper reported.
The Conviction
On February 24, Weinstein was convicted of forcibly performing oral sex on production crew member Miriam “Mimi” Haleyi in 2006 and of raping aspiring actress Jessica Mann in 2013.
The stress of the conviction, apparently, triggered the chest pains that sent him to the hospital the next day.
A judge sentenced him to 20 years in the first case and three in the second.
The convicted rapist was a top Democrat donor and close pal of the Obamas and Clintons.
Weinstein backed Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns with $45,000, Business Insider reported when allegations against him surfaced, and Michele Obama called the pervert “a wonderful human being, a good friend and just a powerhouse.”
Citing records from the Federal Election Commission, the New York Post recently reported that he gave more money to Hillary Clinton’s election efforts than to any other Democrat.
He “bundled $1.4 million for Clinton during her presidential bid in 2016 and handed her another $73,390 dating back to her 1999 New York Senate run,” the Post reported.
Between 2020 and 2017, Business Insider reported, he gave Democrats more than $1 million.
The proximity of top Democrats to sex perverts is nothing unusual. Another top bagman for the Obama-Clinton Mafia was Ed Buck, a homosexual pervert and “violent sex predator,” court documents allege. He is charged with multiple felonies in connection with the death of two homosexuals from overdoses at his home. He also faces wrongful death lawsuits.
Other Top Virus Victims
Weinstein isn’t the only celebrity who has contracted the virus.
Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, tested positive for the virus and are recovering. So have three top politicians: Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Representatives Ben McAdams (D-Utah) and Mario Díaz-Balart (R-Fla.). Other stars, politicians, and public figures are self-isolating.
Pro basketball players and other athletes also have it.
Photo: AP Images
R. Cort Kirkwood is a long-time contributor to The New American and a former newspaper editor.
