Re: Dominic Carter in the News [Greg Pollowitz]
The story we posted earlier has changed:
The wife of hot-headed NY1 political anchor Dominic Carter testified today that it was a day laborer who beat her up last October in an argument over payment for work – not her volatile husband, as she originally had told cops that day.
Marilyn Carter’s surprising testimony came on the first day of Dominic’s trial for allegedly assaulting his Manhattan College administrator wife during an argument in the Rockland County home on Oct. 22, 2008.
A written statement she gave Ramapo Town Police, which was revealed today, said Dominic, 45, called her "dumb," "stupid," and "retarded," and that he also called her a "dumb project bitch" whom he had no respect for. And in a taped 911 call she made the day of the alleged assault, she told authorities Dominic had hit her.
Police records obtained by The Post yesterday revealed that Carter was charged with third-degree assault a misdemeanor, after 52-year-old Marilyn told them Dominic twice punched her in the face, "causing a swollen bottom lip," and grabbed her around her throat, "causing scratches and minor bleeding from behind her left ear."
Dominic also repeatedly punched her in the right upper arm and "kicked her in her lower right shin, causing a small cut with minor bleeding," the records said.
But yesterday, Marilyn told the Ramapo court judge who is presiding over the case a radically different story to explain her injuries.
Marilyn told the judge that she had hired a day laborer to do some yard work at the couple’s Pomona, NY, home. At some point during that day, she and Dominic had a shouting match, and her husband then stormed out of the house, Marilyn testified.
Afterward, Marilyn said, she had a dispute over payment with the laborer, and he attacked her, she testified. Dominic was not home at that time, she said today.
Are we really supposed to buy this?
10/29 05:00 PM
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