Weinstein’s lawyer gave thousands to Vance after DA let client off hook

The lawyer who helped Harvey Weinstein avoid charges for admittedly groping a model in 2015 has donated $26,550 in campaign cash to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. — including $2,100 after Vance let Weinstein off the hook, The Post has learned.

Weinstein hired high-powered defense lawyer Elkan Abramowitz, a partner at the firm where Vance worked before he became DA, after Ambra Battilana Gutierrez accused him of grabbing her breasts and trying to put his hand up her skirt inside his Tribeca office in March 2015, sources said told The Post on Wednesday.

Ambramowitz led a team of attorneys who met with prosecutors before Vance decided not to pursue a case against Weinstein, even though cops had secretly recorded him apologizing to Gutierrez and promising: “I won’t do it again.”

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