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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.<\/p>\nCHICAGO — 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.<\/p>\n
The spokesman says five years ago, Cohen was in the middle of a divorce and “he got involved with the wrong kind of people.”<\/p>\n
The charge against Scott Lee Cohen in October of 2005: domestic battery. <\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Cohen was arrested and $7,500 bail was set.<\/p>\n The case was dropped because the woman wasn’t in court.<\/p>\n The misdemeanor complaint says the woman was “a household member,” but she gave an address in Lake County, Illinois.<\/p>\n The woman had previously been charged with prostitution.<\/p>\n A spokesman for Scott Lee Cohen says Cohen had the woman arrested for destruction of property.<\/p>\n Steve Miller reporting<\/strong><\/p>\n Read the original article from WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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