Donovan refutes allegations that he interfered in girlfriend’s son’s drug arrest
Congressmember Dan Donovan has publicly denied allegations in a New York Post article published late Saturday evening, March 31 claiming that the Bay Ridge and Staten Island pol once used his position to “get [his] baby mama’s son out of a heroin bust.”
This never happened, according to Donovan, a Republican who is running for re-election and is already engaged in a heated primary race against his predecessor, Michael Grimm, who gave up the seat in January, 2015, after pleading guilty to tax evasion and other federal charges and served seven months of an eight-month sentence in prison. The accusations, former Staten Island D.A. Donovan said, are just “dirty politics.”
“Like so many families in our community, mine has also been dealing with a loved one’s addiction. Our struggle has been private until today,” the pol wrote in a Facebook post Sunday afternoon. “This anonymous attack on my family two months before an election is based entirely on one person’s 100 [percent] false accusations. This case followed standard procedure to the tee.”