By DANNY HAKIM
ALBANY — The Bronx district attorney’s office expects to meet soon with Sherr-una Booker, who says she was the victim of a domestic assault last Oct. 31 by a top aide to Gov. David A. Paterson, a meeting that could be a prelude to a formal investigation.
Ms. Booker said in an interview with The Daily News and WNBC that appeared Thursday that she would seek to have charges brought against the aide, David W. Johnson, her former boyfriend.
“It’s the right thing to do,” she said in the interview. “I don’t want any woman to go through what I went through.”
The district attorney’s office has apparently been waiting for the conclusion of a state attorney general’s investigation of the Paterson administration’s involvement in the domestic assault case. After several months, that inquiry may be nearing its end.
Mr. Johnson, a former driver for Mr. Paterson who had risen to become one of the governor’s most trusted aides, was suspended without pay in February after details of Ms. Booker’s allegations became public. Subsequent revelations — that Mr. Paterson had contacted Ms. Booker while she was seeking an order of protection against Mr. Johnson, and that the State Police might have sought to discourage her from taking legal action against Mr. Johnson — led Mr. Paterson to drop his bid for election and prompted the resignations of five senior administration officials, including the top two officials at the State Police. Read more..
(No Ratings Yet)
Loading ...
Email This Post