Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s newsman son, Greg, is being investigated for allegedly raping a woman, law-enforcement sources told The Post early today.
The woman filed an official complaint Tuesday against the younger Kelly, claiming the co-host of Fox 5’s “Good Day New York” attacked her last October, the sources said.
The allegation is being investigated by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office because of the inherent conflict of interest in an NYPD probe, according to the sources.
Greg Kelly’s lawyer, Andrew Lankler, said his client “strenuously denied” the allegation.
“Mr. Kelly is aware that the New York County District Attorney’s Office is conducting an investigation,” Lankler told The Post.
“Mr. Kelly strenuously denies any wrongdoing of any kind, and is cooperating fully with the district attorney’s investigation. We know the district attorney’s investigation will prove Mr. Kelly’s innocence.”
A police spokesman referred all questions to the Manhattan DA. A spokeswoman for DA Cyrus Vance Jr. declined comment.
Rosanna Scotto, Kelly’s “Good Day New York” co-host, said today “I love Greg. That’s all I can say.”
Kelly was absent from this morning’s program.
The woman, in her late 20s or early 30s, went to the 13th Precinct station house with her sister sometime after 8 p.m. Tuesday to file the complaint, sources said.
She told police she met Greg Kelly, 43, on a street Oct. 8 and they went for drinks at the South Street Seaport, the sources said.
Then, she claimed, they went to the lower Manhattan law firm where she works — it was not clear if she’s a lawyer— and the alleged assault took place there.
Greg Kelly and the woman continued to communicate after the alleged incident, according to the sources.
She told police her boyfriend got furious when she related her story to him, and he approached the police commissioner at a public event.
It wasn’t immediately clear when that was.
The boyfriend told Ray Kelly that Greg had “ruined my girlfriend’s life,” according to The Post’s sources.
The commissioner asked him to explain and the man said he didn’t want to discuss it in a public setting.
Kelly then told him to put it in writing and send it to him, the sources said.
It wasn’t immediately clear if that letter was ever written.
It’s also not clear why the accuser waited three months to make an official report.
Having been the target of an accusation-only legal assault (though nothing this serious) that cost me thousands in legal costs has made me a fairly skeptical of accusations far after the time of the incident.
If he did it, fiercely prosecute. If he didn't, fiercely prosecute the accuser.
Was the rumor around the office that she had relations in the building and she stated it was involuntary, to protect her from being fired?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseGee, wait three months - a time-frame that makes it highly likely that all surveillance footage would be recorded over by - and then make your complaint.
Look, I get why the name of the accuser isn't released by the police nor reported by the media. However, if you're going to publicly identify the accused, particularly with such a weak complaint as this, don't you have an obligation to keep his name confidential too, at least until such a time that an actual indictment occurs, if not conviction? It seems like a patently unfair and inequitable policy.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYep, Scott, waited three months throws up a big red flag to me also. Cordially, Bill
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePet peeve: A guy who does the morning show for a local Fox broadcast affiliate is not "Fox's Greg Kelly." I've seen several headlines about this identifying Kelly as a "Fox newsman" , "Fox Reporter" or even "Fox Anchor". Kelly is none of these things
This is a lazy habit of the MSM, especially when an employee of any Fox station is involved in any kind of negative story. The casual reader immediately assumes the person is affiliated with that awful Fox News Channel. The same MSM outlets would never dream of calling a member of the Storm Team for KSN-TV (NBC-3) in Wichita, KS an "NBC reporter" in a story about his drunk driving or men's room solicitation arrest. But you can bet your bottom dollar that the equivalent story about a weather guy from KSAS, the local Fox affiliate, would be headlined, "Fox newsman busted."
It is like the habit of not even identifying the party affiliations of scandal-plagued Democrats, while making sure that "Republican" or "GOP" are in 24-point type in any story that makes someone from the other side of the aisle look bad.
The "Fox" thing is the same kind of careless habit and I wish our side would refrain reinforcing it.
Regards,
Joe
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI agree with your larger point, but in the interest of factual accuracy I would point out that Kelly is still employed by Fox Broadcasting Company: The "affiliate" in NYC is not an affiliate and is instead a Fox-owned station.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI thought the same thing about Fox 5 being an affiliate or Fox-owned station, so went to the station's website. WNYW is owned by News Corp.
I also found Kelly's bio, and it states he worked at FNC between 2002 and 2007, and was a White House correspondent for FNC for two years.
"Most recently, Kelly was an anchor and correspondent for the Fox News Channel (FNC) based in New York. Kelly joined FNC in 2002 and went on to serve as a White House correspondent from 2005-2007. He has also covered the war in Iraq extensively, including four long-term assignments in Baghdad. During the 2003 invasion, he was embedded with the U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division, 2nd Brigade. He was the first television reporter to deliver live pictures of U.S. forces infiltrating Baghdad, as well as exclusive reports of the storming of Saddam Hussein’s presidential palace."
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So the headline could read "Former FNC" reporter, "WNYW Morning Host", "News Corp On-Air Employee", or possibly Fox Station Morning Host", but as you stated, the current headline will be understood my the uninformed to mean that he works for Fox News Channel now, which is incorrect.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseReno_Dave wrote: "I thought the same thing about Fox 5 being an affiliate or Fox-owned station, so went to the station's website. WNYW is owned by News Corp."
True. NewsCorp-owned isn't the same as "network", though. All of the local stations in NY and LA are owned by the parent network, but they are still "affiliates" in all but name. The anchor for the local 5 o'clock news on WNBC or KNBC TV is not an NBC news correspondent. Even though in New York both the local and network news on WNBC originate from the same building (30 Rock) there is all the difference in the world between the two. It is like playing minor league ball vs. the majors. Even in a big market on a team owned by an MLB team, you still aren't a Dodger or a Yankee until you're called up to the Show. ;-)
Regards,
Joe
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI don't know the truth of this accusation and I hope the facts can be conclusively determined one way or another. But based on my own experiences as a trial attorney, my antennae go up when I read about the rape accuser who has a boyfriend. I have seen several cases where a consensual but ill-considered sexual encounter becomes a "rape" allegation as the woman tries to explain to her significant other why she had sex with another man. Several factors in the reported story point that direction to me. Again, I don't know the facts. But I am skeptical.
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