Ex-New York ADA Suspended Two Months for Drunken Assault in Bar

A New York appeals court suspended an ex-Manhattan prosecutor for two months for assaulting a woman at a bar, imposing a harsher sanction than recommended.

The evidence “clearly established the seriousness of respondent’s assault,” the state Supreme Court Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, said in its Tuesday opinion.

Eli Karl Cherkasky was convicted in 2015 of “criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation and assault in the third degree and harassment in the second degree,” the court recounted. He had been “drinking heavily for many hours” when he got into a verbal altercation with a woman that ended up getting ...