EXCLUSIVE: Former GOP Senator Accused of Lying to Cops to Put His Wife in a Psych Ward

[DonViejo]

by Ronn Blitzer | 6:48 pm, March 11th, 2019

Former Senator Alfonse D’Amato (R-N.Y.) and his wife Katuria D’Amato have been going through a heated divorce proceeding, and now she’s suing him in federal court. The suit contains serious allegations.

In a complaint filed on Monday, Mrs. D’Amato alleges that her estranged husband once had her hospitalized, falsely telling police and a judge that she had a history psychiatric issues. Soon after, she claims, he was granted custody of their children, and she was coerced into accepting an agreement to only have supervised visitation.

According to the complaint obtained by Law&Crime, which you can read in full below, it all started when Mrs. D’Amato called 911 on Sept. 30, 2017, when she was afraid of a possible home intruder. The complaints says that when police arrived, Mr. D’Amato–who was staying in a downstairs bedroom–allegedly told them that Mrs. D’Amato was “crazy,” that she had “a prior psychiatric history, that she takes Lithium for a bi-polar disorder,” and that she “believed that ‘green lasers’ are being shot into the home.”

Mrs. D’Amato claims that these were false statements that led to her being kept South Nassau Communities Hospital in Long Island against her will from Sept. 30 until Oct. 2. The next day, the lawsuit says, she brought a divorce action. Soon after, Mr. D’Amato applied for protective orders that a judge signed, awarding him temporary custody of their children.

On Oct. 11, 2017, Mrs. D’Amato went to court, where the judge said he wasn’t changing that order, and that she had to agree to supervised visitation three times a week if she wanted to continue seeing her children, the complaint says.

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[blogslut]

1. Alfonse D'Amato has always been vile

And he still is

[Javaman]

9. took the words out of my mouth!

hated that bastard. I grew up on Long Island and did my part trying to unseat that prick.

[lostnfound]

2. She needs better legal counsel

The kids are still young, 10 and 8. She’s representing herself, hard to know what’s true and what isn’t, but i hope somehow she finds someone to trust and that the kids stay safe.

[Farmer-Rick]

3. Her story is believable

especially since there was no gun as her husband claimed.

Would make for a good movie.

[keith sw]

4. How in the world

Does he have kids that young? Isn’t he about 80?

[deurbano]

7. That was my first thought!

[dlk]

5. With Respect to Child Custody, Things Changed Drastically for Women Some Years Ago

If a man is wealthy and connected and wants custody, he will receive it, even if he has a history of abuse and/or addiction issues. I used to live in a very affluent town in the Midwest where this was a given. An attorney who specialized in family law once told me he saw around 90% of the women getting divorced get “screwed.” They would lose custody if their children and most, if not all of their share of the marital assets, as well, if their former spouse wanted to be vindictive, which often happens. I saw women routinely lose custody of even very young children to angry, abusive men. Acquaintances who were part of an informal court watch group would say that if they hadn’t been in the courtroom to see what actually happened, they never would have believed it. This isn’t covered in the news media because reporters don’t want to “lose their access.” The war on women happens every day in courtrooms and is largely invisible.

[marble falls]

6. The only evidence of crazy she displayed was being married to D'Amato.

[2naSalit]

8. Common ploy for abusers...

My dad tried to do that to his second wife, my brother tried to do that to his ex and their daughter, now in a nasty divorce/custody battle is fighting the same claims made by her soon-to-be-ex. Meanwhile, they are the abusers who think that they, because they have a penis, are going to win because they have a penis and the one with the vagina is always wrong or stupid or crazy... or all three.

I've seen this BS play out for decades in my own family. My pedophile dad got custody of us until I was able to "kidnap" my siblings and return them to our mother after seven years of outright slavery.


I hope he ends up dying in prison.