Posted on 10/01/2018 5:29:32 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was reportedly questioned by police in 1985 after he was accused of throwing ice on someone during a college bar fight.
The New York Times obtained a report from the New Haven Police Department on Monday dating back to when Kavanaugh was an undergraduate student at Yale University.
Kavanaugh, then 21 years old, was questioned along with four other men after an early morning altercation at Demery’s bar in September 1985.
Kavanaugh was not arrested but was accused of throwing ice on someone for “some unknown reason,” according to the report obtained by The Times.
Kavanaugh did not want “to say if he threw the ice or not” when speaking with officers, according to the report.
A witness told police that Chris Dudley, one of Kavanaugh’s friends, also hit the man in the ear with a glass. Dudley denied the accusation.
Police noted that the victim, Dom Cozzolino, “was bleeding from the right ear” and was treated at a local hospital.
The newspaper noted that the local bar, known for serving pizza and beer, closed in 1994.
The report obtained by The Times lists the altercation as “an assault” but does not indicate if there were ever any arrests or charges filed.
The White House did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment on Monday.
Dudley did not respond to The Times’ request for comment and Cozzolino declined to comment to the newspaper.
Kavanaugh’s drinking habits have been under a spotlight since he was publicly accused of sexual assault by Christine Blasey Ford and two other women.
Ford testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week and alleged a drunken Kavanaugh assaulted her during a summer house party in the 1980s when they were both high school students.
Deborah Ramirez, the second woman to come forward with accusations against Kavanaugh, has reportedly spoken with the FBI as part of its additional investigation into the judge.
Ramirez told The New Yorker last week that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her at a dorm party at Yale University in the 1980s, causing her to touch his penis when she pushed him.
A third woman, Julie Swetnick, claims that Kavanaugh attended a party where she was drugged with "Quaaludes or something similar" and attacked by a series of men in a "gang rape."
Kavanaugh has denied all of the allegations against him.
The nominee testified under oath that he had never blacked out or passed out due to alcohol consumption.
Chad Ludington, a man who attended Yale with Kavanaugh, told The Times on Sunday that Kavanaugh had mischaracterized his alcohol consumption during his testimony.
Ludington said he saw Kavanaugh "staggering from alcohol consumption" multiple times, describing him as a "belligerent and aggressive" drunk.
"It is truth that is at stake, and I believe that the ability to speak the truth, even when it does not reflect well upon oneself, is a paramount quality we seek in our nation’s most powerful judges,” Ludington said in a statement, according to the Times.
The White House on Monday released statements from Dan Murphy and Chris Dudley, Kavanaugh's former suitemate and classmate respectively, who said they never saw Kavanaugh black out from drinking.
How would anybody know if you blacked out? Maybe a friend you hang out with because you told them. You do not black out just because you are drunk.
By all means don’t put him on the SCOTUS because he threw some ice at someone in a bar in 1985.. Is that all these POS have at this point?
Of course the headline sounds like he was in a bar brawl with a bunch of drunks. These bastards in the MSM have no shame. One hopes there’s a special place in hell waiting for all of them
I’m sure this incident is in all
6 of his prior FBI background
investigations. As it is a filed
police report. They saw nothing
there, there. The media needs to
set the magnifying glass down.
Am I to believe that 6 prior FBI BIs didn’t know about this? If so then what the hell are we paying them for?
Not that I care - teenagers and college kids are still learning the ropes. Has no impact on my belief that Judge K belongs on the SC, but man this is ridiculous.
The Deep State wants to eventually fill the courts with mediocre, gullible “judges” whose rulings will be in accordance with the “suggestions” of the Deep Staters!
“Roof hits and a little blow when we could afford it” — no problemo
The left is now trying to paint Kavanaugh as a black out drunk. That doesn’t just go away. It gets worse. Yet there is nothing in his associations or police records that indicate ANY such problem
This needs to end now. All you Arizonans need to put pressure of Flake. Call his office. Write letters to the editors etc.
Hold the darned vote now
Jocks throwing ice at each other - (the crushed or little cube restaurant kind) it’s never happened before in history.
Dems will now use a bar fight to renew calls to abolish “ice”
after Dom threw a beer bottle - but they don’t want you to know that little factoid.
“ABOLISH ICE”
No you don't. We knew exactly who he was and what he did, who he hung out with, etc. We all vetted him, told our Congress people, the media, all over social media and it got us exactly nowhere.
This is old news, fake news and weak news. As there was a police report about much of nothing, it was in first 6 F-I investigations.
The horror of it Kavanaughn threw ice on someone. The ice man.
The name of the “victim” , Dom Cozzolino rings a bell from some recent anti-Kavanaugh affair/article.
Does anyone recognize who he is? I smell a “red”.
Touche!
OMG! What sh*theels the fake news media and Demonrats are!
CNN found the police report.
The I havent seen anything from the FBI on this.
But this is good news.
If CNN dug and dug and all they can come up with is that he threw ice in bar one time... then they are running out i.d of material and getting desperate.
No, not really. But I’m a Republican.
Was Justice Breyer arrested for underage drinking at Stanford?
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