NEW YORK (AP) — The police commissioner’s TV show host son is accused of sexually assaulting and impregnating a woman. Some activists are calling for the commissioner’s resignation for appearing in a film they call anti-Muslim. And the CIA is pulling an operative out of his unusual assignment at the NYPD, a partnership he helped create.
It’s been a daunting couple of days for Commissioner Raymond Kelly, who’s been the city’s influential police boss for the last decade. And Friday likely won’t be much easier, with Kelly potentially facing questions publicly for the first time since the allegations surfaced Wednesday against his son Greg, who denies them and has not been charged with any crime.
The department was planning a promotion ceremony Friday. The commissioner usually answers questions from reporters after such events, but said Friday through his spokesman Paul Browne that he will not “entertain questions, directly or tangentially related to his son.”
The Manhattan district attorney’s office is investigating a woman’s allegation that Greg Kelly, 43, met her for drinks on Oct. 8, then assaulted her after the two went to her lower Manhattan law office, one person familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press. She told authorities she was not capable of consenting to sex, the person said.
She said she became pregnant from the encounter and had an abortion, according to a law enforcement official. Neither the person nor the law enforcement official were authorized to speak publicly and talked to the AP on condition of anonymity.
The woman reported the alleged attack Tuesday to police, who quickly turned the matter over to Manhattan DA Cyrus R. Vance Jr.’s office because of the potential conflict of interest in investigating one of the commissioner’s sons, the person familiar with the probe said.
The DA’s office declined to