Disgraced move mogul Harvey Weinstein was wheeled into a Queens courtroom Thursday morning for a brief appearance before a judge – just days after he was transferred back to Rikers Island from a cushy private room at Bellevue Hospital.
The 72-year-old — who had his 2020 New York sex crimes conviction dropped last month — wore a blue suit with an American flag pin on the left lapel as Judge Joanne Watters quickly sent him back to jail to await further proceedings.
Defense attorneys John Esposito and Diana Fabi Samson declined to waive an extradition hearing that could send Weinstein to California, where he was convicted on separate sex charges in 2023.
“A governor needs to sign such a warrant of extradition and we took the position that the governor, the people need to produce the appropriate documentation for an extradition,” Samson told reporters after the Thursday hearing.
“They are not in a position to extradite Mr. Weinstein right now because they have not done what they need to do.”
Queens Assistant DA George DeLuca Farrugia was also present at the hearing, but did not address reporters afterwards.
