NEW YORK (AP) — The son of the New York police commissioner, a well-known city television personality, was absent Thursday from the morning show he co-hosts as he faced unspecified allegations of wrongdoing.
Greg Kelly, son of Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, is cooperating with an investigation by the Manhattan district attorney's office and "strenuously denies any wrongdoing of any kind," his lawyer Andrew Lankler said in an emailed statement.
"We know that the district attorney's investigation will prove Mr. Kelly's innocence," Lankler said. He didn't respond to questions about the focus of the investigation.
The exact nature of the allegations was unclear, but police spokesman Paul Browne said the police commissioner was recently made aware of an accusation against his son by the boyfriend of a woman. The man approached the elder Kelly at a public event.
"He said, 'Your son ruined my girlfriend's life,'" Browne said. "The commissioner said 'Well, what do you mean?' He said he didn't want to talk about it here so the commissioner told him to send a letter."
The DA's office declined to comment. Browne said he couldn't comment further and referred inquiries to the district attorney's office because of the potential conflict of interest.
Greg Kelly, 43, co-hosts "Good Day New York," a morning television show on the local Fox affiliate, WNYW. Messages left for the station weren't immediately returned late Wednesday. Kelly did not appear on the show Thursday morning.
He joined Fox News Channel in 2002 and was the White House correspondent from 2005-2007, according to his biography on WNYW's website. A Marine Corps veteran and reservist, he also covered the Iraq War, including four assignments in Baghdad.
Before that, he covered politics for local cable news channel New York 1 and was an anchor and reporter for NewsChannel 34, an ABC and NBC affiliate in Binghamton, N.Y., his biography said.
He also served for nearly a decade in the Marine Corps and is now a lieutenant colonel in its reserves.
Raymond Kelly returned to the police commissioner's post in 2002 after a stint in the 1990s.
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Associated Press writer Colleen Long contributed to this report.
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