TRUMP ORGANIZATION FEELS THE HEAT IN ASSAULT CASE
The NYPD has conducted an internal affairs investigation into assault charges against a woman who helped oust Donald Trump’s son from the condo board of his own building.
Internal Affairs Bureau documents obtained by The Post show the sergeant who investigated the charges believed they were “beefed up” as the result of pressure placed by the Trump Organization because of the ongoing feud at Trump Place at 220 Riverside Blvd.
Eugenia Kaye, 45, twice had cops from the 20th precinct knock on her door in December 2006 after the stationhouse got a report of an assault from a fellow officer in the Community Affairs Bureau at 1 Police Plaza, police records show.
The NYPD’s Community Affairs Bureau doesn’t usually get involved in precinct level criminal investigations. Its mandate is to foster a positive interaction between the police and the public.
A uniformed cop responded to the first call. The building’s resident manager, Daniel Gonzalez, told him Kaye, a single mother of three, punched him in the eye the night before at the high-rise’s Christmas party.
Hours later, three plain-clothes cops went to the building looking to arrest Kaye on those assault charges, police records show.
In a statement in a 2007 Internal Affairs Bureau report, the NYPD sergeant who was one of the three cops to respond to the second call told investigators, “Mr. Gonzalez was pressured by the Trump organization to beef up the complaint against Ms. Kaye to have her arrested, because she had Donald Trump Jr. ousted as a board member of the building.”
The two police runs to the building were not recorded in the NYPD’s computer system, according to statement made by IAB investigators to Kaye’s lawyer, Robert A. Ross. Also, the cops did not make entries into their memo books showing they were at the building, the IAB report reveals – in violation of police policy.
Kaye, the ex-wife of British filmmaker Tony (“American History X”) Kaye, was never arrested and the assault charge was quickly downgraded to harassment, a violation and not a crime.
“I know nothing about it,” Trump Sr. told The Post. “I know you are trying to make me look as bad as possible.” The developer emphasized that Kaye had sued him for harassment and lost and was therefore bitter. Kaye is appealing.
“She brought it up before, the police thing,” Trump noted. “I wish she was arrested because she is a terrible person. I heard she was unbelievably abusive.”
Since the incident, Kaye has been the subject of a half a dozen lawsuits and emergency motions filed by Trump Jr., Gonzalez and residents of the building loyal to Trump Jr. Each of the legal actions was dismissed or withdrawn.
Kaye has moved out of the building and Donald Trump Jr. has regained his position on the building’s board.