Harvey Weinstein was in court on Friday for a hearing to inform him of changes to New York’s bail system that will take effect on January 1st. At the hearing, a prosecutor argued that he’d violated his bail conditions allegedly messed with his electronic ankle monitor, which kept his whereabouts recorded for hours at a time.
According to Joan Illuzzi, the movie mogul left a piece of the monitoring technology that kept the bracelet activated. “None of these violations were accidental,” she said during a pretrial hearing on Friday. Meanwhile defense lawyer, Donna Rotunno, agreed that at least once Harvey did forget that part the device. But he called as soon as he realized it. She blamed “technical glitches” – like dead batteries – for the unrecorded time. The judge put off any decision about whether Harvey should face stricter bail conditions over the alleged violations until this week. He’s accused of raping a woman in 2013 and performing a forcible sex on a different woman in 2006 – charges to which he’s pleaded not guilty.
