NYC prosecutors fight Weinstein’s extradition to LA

NEW YORK

Harvey Weinstein appeared in a Queens courtroom Thursday morning as prosecutors fought an extradition request to send him back to California following the stunning overturning of his New York rape and sex assault conviction.

California authorities have requested that New York City law enforcement officials bring the disgraced media mogul, 72, back to the West Coast, where he is facing additional sex abuse charges.

“With the New York case against Weinstein overturned, he’s technically now a fugitive from the state of California,” a law enforcement source said.

New York is fighting the extradition request since the disgraced Miramax founder is expected to be retried on the rape case as soon as the fall.

The decision to retry Weinstein was announced earlier this month at a Manhattan Supreme Court hearing attended by the movie producer and Jessica Mann, one of two women who he was found guilty of attacking more than four years ago.

A state Supreme Court jury determined Weinstein was guilty of criminal sexual act in the first-degree and third-degree rape in 2020, finding he forcibly performed oral sex on Miriam Haley in 2006 and committed third-degree rape in an incident with Mann in 2013.