Don’t forget Cy
Harvey Weinstein went from walking the red carpet at premieres to perp walking into a police station. And it took only 30 years of getting away with allegations of rape, sexual assault and very indecent exposure for horrible Harvey,the horror of Hollywood, to be brought to his knees.
Must be karmic payback after a lifetime, his accusers claim, of forcing THEM to their knees and shoving his penis into their mouths.
Sorry if you think that sounds too rough for a family newspaper, but sexual assault deserves rough language, just as Weinstein deserves a rough sentence.
No language is rough enough when discussing his alleged actions. Nor is any language adequate enough when discussing the lack of action against him-until now-by the cowardly, bumbling Manhattan district attorney, Cy Vance Jr.
This celebrity prosecutor refused to prosecute powerhouse Harvey after actress Ambra Battilana Gutierrez caught Weinstein on an NYPD wire in 2015 admitting – admitting! – that he groped her. So was it just one of those mere coincidences that Harvey’s civil attorney had contributed to Vance’s election campaign? The revelation not just tainted Vance’s no-prosecution decision, it blackened it.
After not charging Weinstein in the Gutierrez case, Vance (inset) then failed to prosecute him on two other rape allegations brought by actress Paz de la Huerta. Her lawyer called Vance’s actions “startlingly similar” to the way he dealt with Gutierrez.
So will the swill that is Harvey Weinstein finally end up rotting in prison where he should have been decaying years ago?
Don’t count on it. For starters, he is being represented by defense attorney Ben Brafman, whose law firm also donated to Vance’s campaign – $4,600.
Small change in the big-money world of celebrities, sure, but curiously Vance also declined to prosecute Brafman’s other high-profile sexual assault defendants, attorney Sanford Rubenstein, French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn and TV host Greg Kelly.
The sad truth is that Manhattan under DA Cy Vance has become a haven for rich and powerful sexual assaulters.
Vance’s lack of Weinstein action was so suspicious that Gov. Cuomo assigned Attorney General Eric Scheniderman to investigate – until Schneiderman himself went from #MeToo to #HimToo when four women accused him of sexual battery. He called it role-playing. They called it getting beaten up. Schneiderman resigned in disgrace and the state’s first female acting attorney general, Barbara Underwood, has taken over. It’s well past time Weinstein answers for his actions and Vance is made to pay for his inaction. Manhattan has too long been like Ecuador for Julian Assange and Russia for Edward Snowden – a safe place no matter what kind of animal you are. Vance has not served up justice for women of this city and should go. Weinstein also deserves justice and too should go – to jail. If he’s as innocent as he claims, karma will out. And if he’s guilty as charged, karma will out. Sure, karma’s a bitch, Harvey, but karma that’s dished out in prison to fat rapists? That right there, that’s one scary bastard.