CHICAGO — The apparent Democratic nominee for Illinois lieutenant governor, Scott Lee Cohen, was accused of swinging a knife and scarring a woman in 2005 – a woman who had previously been arrested on prostitution charges.
The spokesman says five years ago, Cohen was in the middle of a divorce and “he got involved with the wrong kind of people.”
The charge against Scott Lee Cohen in October of 2005: domestic battery.
He was accused of holding a knife to the neck of a 24-year-old woman and causing a “minor scar” – and pushing her head against the wall.
Cohen was arrested and $7,500 bail was set.
The case was dropped because the woman wasn’t in court.
The misdemeanor complaint says the woman was “a household member,” but she gave an address in Lake County, Illinois.
The woman had previously been charged with prostitution.
A spokesman for Scott Lee Cohen says Cohen had the woman arrested for destruction of property.
Steve Miller reporting
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