Spitzer lawyer says no assault occurred

Detectives in NY are investigating a woman’s claim that former Governor Eliot Spitzer assaulted her at a midtown hotel, a NY law enforcement source said.

There’s more possible trouble for former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer.

Police said they are trying to “further establish the identity of the subject and the nature of the incident”. She told doctors Spitzer had choked and shoved her.

“There is no truth to the allegation”, Lisa Linden, Spitzer’s spokeswoman said in an email to the news outlet.

According to Kaufmann, Spitzer had known the woman, identified in the statement as Svetlana Travis, “for a period of time”.

According to an ABC News report, Travis and Spitzer were seeing each other romantically for roughly two years, and she was ready to break it off with him.

It is unclear whether or not Spitzer was at the hotel when the police arrived. Mr. Kaufmann said she threatened suicide, made a superficial cut in her wrist and called 911, but then tried to cancel the call. But we do know that in December 2015, Smith and Spitzer were reported to have split up. Police entered the suite, spoke with Travis, and requested emergency services take her to the hospital.

In 2013, on the five-year anniversary of his resignation, Spitzer told Gannett’s Albany Bureau that he didn’t regret the decision to step down. She has reportedly since returned to Russian Federation.

But on Monday, Spitzer’s lawyer said that the woman had apologized by email for making up the allegation.

The woman apparently doesn’t want to press charges, but it’s up to police and prosecutors to determine whether any charges will be filed. It was in 2008, when Spitzer resigned from office over a hooker scandal, saying afterwards, “the remorse I feel will always be with me“.

Investigators found that he did not spend public funds on prostitutes and he was not charged with a crime.

Shortly thereafter, he and his wife separated after 26 years of marriage.