FAKE ID ABORTION
Cashman tried to cover up pregnancy — former mistress
IT WAS Yanks’ general manager Brian Cashman’s most daring trade of the 2011 season: An identity swap for his pregnant lover.
The Bombers bigwig secured a phony ID for mistress Louise Neathway (r.) before her June abortion last year, she charged in court papers this week.
IT WAS Yankees general manager Brian Cashman’s most daring trade of the 2011 season: An identity swap for his pregnant lover.
The Bronx Bombers bigwig secured a phony ID for mistress Louise Neathway before her June abortion last year, the spurned former girlfriend charged in court papers this week.
Cashman, while initially “unnerved” by the pregnancy, was soon wheeling and dealing like the trade deadline was imminent, the British blond said in an affidavit.
“He demanded that I provide him with two passport-size photographs so that he could obtain a fake ID,” said Neathway, 36, who remains behind bars on Rikers Island for allegedly stalking and extorting Cashman.
“Not only did Mr. Cashman obtain a fake ID for me in the name of Rosalita Gonzalez, he also took care in finding a clinic to provide the abortion service and car service for me on the day of the procedure.”
Chris Giglio, a spokesman for Cashman, ridiculed Neathway’s latest charges as “more fiction from an individual a grand jury has charged with fraud, harassment and lying.”
According to Neathway, the biggest problem for the cheating Cashman over the procedure was a crisis of faith.
“Mr. Cashman provided emotional support and was quite decent to me in the days after the procedure,” she said.
“However, Mr. Cashman seemed to struggle with his religious convictions in opposing abortion yet being part to a preg- nancy that was terminated.”
Cashman, the father of a 13-year-old daughter and an 8-year-old son, split with his wife of 16 years when his 10-month affair with Neathway became public knowledge.
Neathway is seeking tapes of 911 calls from the NYPD to support a possible civil suit for per- sonal injuries. The calls from January 2012 were made by her mother and others, reportedly at Cashman’s urging.
“It appeared there were several false 911 calls made,” with emergency medical personnel dispatched to her home, she said.
Neathway was hit in March with a 52-count indictment charg- ing she had harassed Cashman and five other men. The top charge carries a 15-year sentence.
Neathway extorted $6,000 in hush money from Cashman over their romance, and tried later to shake him down for another $15,000, authorities charge.
And she purportedly buried him with a blizzard of texts and email messages — although Neathway claims in her latest filing that Cashman called her more than 100 times between Dec. 14, 2011, and Jan. 28, 2012.
Prosecutors claimed another of Neathway’s victims was taken for more than $50,000.
Neathway, in her three-page filing, recounted a six-year platonic relationship with Cashman that preceded their first tryst.
The couple, along with a Neathway friend, hit four lower Manhattan bars before spending the night at her apartment in April 2011, the affidavit said.
She became pregnant by early June, leading to a meeting where Cashman declared “that if I was to continue the pregnancy he would want nothing to do with me or the child,” Neathway claimed.
By the end of last year — and after the abortion — the relationship “had no future,” Neathway said.
While Neathway presented herself as the victim, prosecutors asserted that she tried to manipulate Cashman by claiming that she attempted suicide after the two had a one-night stand.
Thirteen people have filed for restraining orders against Neathway since 1998. The suspect has been held at Rikers Island on $200,000 bond since her Feb. 1 arrest.