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| NY senator charged with assault |
| 2009-03-24 |
| New York State Senator Hiram Monserrate is indicted on charges of domestic assault and criminal acts only two months after assuming office. The 41-year-old senator was accused of slashing his 29 year-old girlfriend, Karla Giraldo's face with broken glass over jealousy. The former city councilman rejected Queens District's jury charges of felony and misdemeanor, stating, "I've said all along this was accident. Karla has said all along this was accident. The district attorney's politically motivated decision to pursue this case doesn't change the fact that this was an accident." Commenting on the wound on Giraldo's face, Monserrate alleged that it happened when he accidentally stumbled with a glass of water in hand and hit the girl. However, he has been shot in a footage taken by his apartment building's surveillance camera that shows a heated argument between the couple. Monserrate, who replaced Hillary Clinton as New York's state senator in January, would face up to seven years behind bars should the court find him guilty of the accusations. Giraldo, however, has changed her original account of the incident in a new sworn affidavit that describes the whole situation as a pure accident. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Latino, former SEIU member, cop, Marine, advocate for illegal immigrant rights, Democrat, from Queens. Considering all that, his track record as a legislator has not been all bad. Shouldn't have slashed his girlfriend though - makes him look like a drug thug or a Muslim. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2009-03-24 21:44 |
| #5 Giraldo, however, has changed her original account of the incident in a new sworn affidavit that describes the whole situation as a pure accident. I bet she did. |
| Posted by: Jan at work 2009-03-24 12:00 |
| #4 A few more details of this case - he went nuclear when he thought he saw a business card of her ex-boyfriend in her bag. He was later seen (video tape maybe?) trying to dump the bag and its contents in the trash. Someone pressured the girlfriend into withdrawing her complaint and she is not currently cooperating, but the grand jury indicted anyway. The actual incident happened in September and he has since been awarded a chairmanship of an important committee. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2009-03-24 09:45 |
| #3 Name That Party, NY State Senator edition. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2009-03-24 09:42 |
| #2 Monserrate didn't replace Hillary Clinton. Monserrate is a state senator - Mrs. Clinton was US Senator. Clinton's successor is Kirsten Gilibrand. |
| Posted by: William Marcy Tweed 2009-03-24 09:17 |
| #1 It was an accident, but I blame Bush anyway! He let the ban on assault water glasses expire. We must act NOW! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-03-24 08:31 |