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The newly elected nominee for Democratic Lt. Governor is fielding questions about a 2005 arrest for domestic battery.<\/p>\nThe newly elected nominee for Democratic Lt. Governor is fielding questions about a 2005 arrest for domestic battery.<\/p>\n
Pawnbroker Scott Lee Cohen said he had gotten in a fight with his drunken girlfriend, but that he never hit her.<\/p>\n
However, court records tell a different story. <\/span><\/p>\n The police report said Cohen supposedly put a knife to her throat and pushed her head against a wall.<\/p>\n Gov. Pat Quinn said he knew nothing about the abuse allegations against Scott Lee Cohen until after Tuesday’s election.<\/p>\n While calling for Cohen to fully answer all questions about the charges, he predicted Cohen ultimately will have to drop out of the race.<\/p>\n “I think that will be the way it will go,” Quinn said at a news conference.<\/p>\n In an unrelated incident, the woman had been charged with prostitution six months beforehand. Cohen said he thought she was a massage therapist.<\/p>\n The misdemeanor charges were dropped when the victim failed to show up in court.<\/p>\n Read the original article from FOX Chicago News<\/a>.<\/p>\n The newly elected nominee for Democratic Lt. Governor is fielding questions about a 2005 arrest for domestic battery. Pawnbroker Scott Lee Cohen said he had gotten in a fight with his drunken girlfriend, but that he never hit her. However, court records tell a different story. The police report said Cohen supposedly put a knife […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Kmb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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