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Hard time Harvey: Former Hollywood heavyweight Harvey Weinstein will spent the next 23 years behind bars. The 67-year-old rapist was sentenced to nearly two dozen years in Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday. Weinstein was convicted of criminal sex act and rape on Feb. 24. The portly pervert was taken to Rikers Island, but was rushed to Bellevue Hospital with chest pain, his lawyers said.

Rancid release: The wife of an NYPD detective railed to The News Wednesday about the release of the teen gangbanger who put her husband in a wheelchair. Esther Veve is furious about the prospect of Justin Murrell walking free less than three years after his arrest. Murrell dragged her cop husband, Dalsh Veve, through two blocks in Brooklyn on June 3, 2017. “I don’t think any time would have justified what he did, so for him not to have gotten the maximum … it was a slap in the face,” Veve said.

Sick City: The number of coronavirus patients growing by leaps and bounds daily, the city, state and country have all declared a state of emergency. To contain the illness, Broadway will be dark for a month, and Madison Square Garden and many city museums have closed in accordance with a state ban on gatherings of more than 500 people. The 259th St. Patrick’s Day Parade and the New York City half-marathon will not go on as planned.

Cold cracked: A Staten Island bishop is charged with his killing a young legal secretary 40 years ago, The News reported Thursday. James Burrus allegedly strangled his estranged wife’s cousin Lorraine Snell (inset) behind a C-Town store in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, on Sept. 26, 1980. Burrus, 63 — who now runs the By Divine Purpose Christian Center on Staten Island — was tied to the crime by advanced DNA testing of the 19-year-old victim’s fingernail scrapings. “Forty years is a long time, but everything worked out beautiful,” Snell’s mother, Pearl Snell-Holder, said outside Brooklyn Supreme Court on Thursday.

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