Harvey Weinstein claims the New York jail the place he is doing time is failing to supply him the medical care he wants … to the purpose the place he fears for his life.
The disgraced film mogul simply filed a declare with the Workplace of the NYC Comptroller, alleging the situations at Rikers Island are making his laundry record of medical points even worse.
Within the docs, obtained by TMZ, Weinstein claims his medical situations deteriorated considerably and dangerously throughout his incarceration at Riker Island … and he is blaming it on the jail.
Weinstein says the jail is aware of he suffers from leukemia, diabetes, coronary artery illness, obstructive sleep apnea, thyroid points, weight problems, hypertension and extra … and he claims the care he is getting falls under the usual of care.
HW says he is suffered vital and ongoing bodily and psychological accidents, emotional misery, lack of enjoyment of life … and desires no less than $5 million in damages.
In an announcement, Weinstein’s lawyer Imran H. Ansari tells TMZ … “Harvey Weinstein has suffered significantly from the deplorable situations on Rikers Island. … Once I final visited him, I discovered him with blood spatter on his jail garb, presumably from IV’s, garments that had not been washed for weeks, and he had not even been supplied clear underwear – hardly sanitary situations for somebody with extreme medical situations and susceptibility to sickness.”
Ansari provides … “I questioned whether or not I used to be in a jail facility that’s purported to be managed in accordance with our structure, or a gulag the place the prisoners are handled like animals.”
