Pols rally for cable workers on strike 1 yr.
SENATOR POTHOLE blew his top.
Al D’Amato’s estranged wife released a disturbing video Wednesday showing him cursing her out as she wept in a hospital bed.
“Poor abused girl! Bullcrap! I’m sick and tired of being treated like I’m nothing, I’m s--t!” D’Amato, 80, hollered. “No matter what I do it’s never enough!”
The footage, apparently recorded without D’Amato’s knowledge on March 10, 2017, came during an argument regarding routine care for their two children.
Katuria D’Amato, 52, said she was recovering from neck surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan the day before.
“You relive it,” Katuria said at her attorney’s office Wednesday. “It’s sad. That’s what he does to me on a regular basis. This is what my kids are spending four days with.”
The D’Amatos are in the midst of a nasty custody battle and divorce. Katuria and her attorney, Tom Liotti, said they released the clip to show D’Amato’s true nature.
They were outraged at D’Amato’s recent teary proclamations on the witness stand and to the press that he loved Katuria and was concerned about her mental health.
“It has turned out during the eight days of hearings that we’ve had so far that former United States Senator Alfonse D’Amato, my client’s husband, is truly an inveterate liar,” Liotti said.
D’Amato lost reelection to the Senate in 1998 but went on to found the influential lobbying firm Park Strategies.
The D’Amatos’ strained relationship reached a breaking point on Sept. 30 when police were called to their Lido Beach, L.I., home.
Cops detained Katuria for a mental evaluation after she claimed people planted secret listening devices and were shining green lasers through her windows, according to testimony.
Liotti said the couple has been estranged since 2014. He plans to show the video of the fuming former senator at the next court hearing, on April 11.
“He seems to have this rage he cannot filter,” Katuria said.
D’Amato’s lawyer Stephen Gassman declined to comment . CITY ELECTED officials rallied behind workers as their strike against Spectrum hit the one-year mark Wednesday — with some suggesting the company’s franchise agreement with the city could be in danger.
About 1,800 workers from Local 3 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers walked off the job last March 28 when protracted contract talks with the cable giant broke down. Despite offers of concessions from the union and massive support from city elected officials, the strike has dragged on — leaving many workers living on just $350 a week from a Local 3 strike fund.
“The CEO makes almost $100 million a year, and they can’t give 1800 workers a contract? It’s unreal,” cable tech Henry Molina, 52, of Queens, said at a rally outside Spectrum’s headquarters.
City Council members also gathered at City Hall to rip the company for its treatment of the striking workers — and to note that its franchise agreement with the city is up in 2019.