New York Daily News

Eliot accuser att’y pushes ‘stab threat’

- Shayna Jacobs and John Annese

A LAWYER for disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer said he’s going to cops with allegation­s that the Luv Gov threatened to knife a man in the privates at a posh Upper East Side eatery.

Joseph Murray, who represents Svetlana Travis Zakharova, the Russian ex-mistress who accused Spitzer of assaulting her at The Plaza, also represents Jamie Antolini, who was allegedly threatened by the pervy pol in a Jan. 2 spat.

“Enough is enough with this slug. It’s time to lock him up,” said Murray, a former NYPD officer. “The alleged Sheriff of Wall Street is no match for a real NYPD cop. He’s going down.”

Murray has also been trying to have Spitzer busted for a allegedly threatenin­g Zakharova’s life in a February 2016 phone call. The lawyer recently gave cops an 18-second expletive-laced clip of what he said is Spitzer berating and hurling death threats at his former paramour.

A Spitzer spokeswoma­n, Lisa Linden, said the lawyer was making “absurd allegation­s.”

“Mr. Spitzer is a private citizen whom various people seek to harass for money or attention,” she said.

The Democrat resigned as governor following a prostituti­on scandal in 2008.

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