{"id":92468,"date":"2018-01-10T15:26:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T19:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=92468"},"modified":"2018-01-12T12:02:53","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T16:02:53","slug":"did-personal-injury-attorney-matthew-haberkorn-repeatedly-assault-socialite-jacqueline-kent-cooke-based-on-a-lie-told-by-his-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=92468","title":{"rendered":"Did personal injury attorney Matthew Haberkorn assault socialite Jacqueline Kent Cooke because of a lie told by his wife? (See video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Jacqueline Kent Cooke files cross complaint after alleged assault<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_92481\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kristin-eberhardt__43283.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92481\" class=\"wp-image-92481\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kristin-eberhardt__43283-623x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kristin-eberhardt__43283-623x1024.png 623w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kristin-eberhardt__43283-183x300.png 183w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kristin-eberhardt__43283-768x1261.png 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kristin-eberhardt__43283.png 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-92481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>California lawyer Matthew Haberkorn<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Submitted by <em>The Armchair Attorney<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The following story is quite typical of how many lawyers operate, especially personal injury attorneys.<\/p>\n<p>First an innocent restaurant patron was falsely accused of an anti-semitic slur by the wife.\u00a0 Then she was chased down the street by the husband (he was in the bathroom at the time) of the woman <strong>who misheard the slur that was never said<\/strong>.\u00a0 (He &#8212;\u00a0Matthew Haberkorn &#8212; also happens to be a personal injury lawyer.)<\/p>\n<p>The mortified and falsely accused patron then attempts to remove herself &#8212; QUICKLY &#8212; from the restaurant, and particularly from the crazy family that went into a raging hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>But the lawyer persists in his hot pursuit of the shell-shocked woman&#8230;right down the street.\u00a0 She then panics for the safety of her male friend and hits the lawyer on the head with her purse.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of this Upper East Side drama that took place at the Caravaggio Ristorante is now all over the tabloids being misrepresented in every way possible by the lawyer husband (see for yourself in the video below) and his attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Jacqueline Kent Cooke, the alleged assailant, appears to be perfectly innocent, except for smacking the guy upside the head with her purse because he was aggressively chasing the couple down the street for no good reason.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"padding-left: 30px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>*CAVEAT:<\/strong> There&#8217;s no question that alcohol was to blame for perhaps every aspect of this Manhattan mayhem.\u00a0 From watching the video it appears that lawyer\u00a0Matthew Haberkorn had too much to drink, just as Ms. Cooke may have over-indulged given her body weight. <strong>Moral of the story:<\/strong> lawyers should be very careful about drinking in public places especially when they summarily mete out punishment after unilaterally handing down a sentence based upon a patently false verdict. Lawyers should know not to act a judge and jury, prosecutor and executioner, particularly when they skipped the trial.\u00a0 As for Ms. Cooke, she should never have left home with her <em>&#8220;Lulu Guinness mirror perspex clutch&#8221;<\/em>, especially if she intended on drinking.\u00a0 Not only are those glass purses quite expensive, they&#8217;re hard as hell as\u00a0Matthew Haberkorn found out the hard way.<a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1515074989194.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-92605\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1515074989194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1515074989194.jpg 896w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1515074989194-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/1515074989194-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>N.B. Now read the article below to see how the <em>mainstream media<\/em> has fabricated a narrative that grossly misrepresented the true story.\u00a0 Now just why does the MSM always get away with such truth-twisting shenanigans?\u00a0 On whose behalf, exactly, are they acting?\u00a0 Really, it&#8217;s very important to ask\u00a0<em><strong>&#8220;Cui bono?&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>in this scenario, and in many others that are quite similar.\u00a0 The final outcome of any legal actions will certainly be quite telling.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Socialite in alleged &#8216;Jew-bashing meltdown&#8217; says she\u2019s the\u00a0victim<\/h2>\n<p>By Emily Smith and Ian Mohr<br \/>\nPage Six<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_92471\" style=\"width: 980px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.10.39-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-92471\" class=\"wp-image-92471 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.10.39-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.10.39-PM.png 970w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.10.39-PM-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-10-at-2.10.39-PM-768x495.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-92471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jacqueline Kent Cooke &#8211; Robert Grima<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pagesix.com\/tag\/jacqueline-kent-cooke\/\">Jacqueline Kent Cooke<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the socialite daughter of former Redskins owner\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pagesix.com\/tag\/jack-kent-cooke\/\">Jack Kent Cooke<\/a>\u00a0who was arrested after\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pagesix.com\/2018\/01\/03\/socialite-jacqueline-kent-cooke-being-questioned-for-attacking-lawyer\/?_ga=2.110099649.517650893.1515457253-36443488.1484111516\">allegedly making an anti-Semitic slur at a Manhattan restaurant<\/a>\u00a0resulting in a sidewalk scuffle \u2014 insists she was misheard and is the victim.<\/p>\n<p>Cooke, 29, was arrested and charged with assault after she got into a tussle with personal injury attorney Matthew Haberkorn, whom she then bashed on the head with her heavy perspex purse on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>The incident kicked off in the line for the cloakroom at fancy Upper East Side restaurant Caravaggio after Cooke allegedly made an offensive comment to Haberkorn\u2019s mother: \u201cHurry up, you Jew.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Cooke strongly denies uttering that comment. She told Page Six, \u201cWe had a really nice dinner and were rushing to go to a friend\u2019s apartment before the clock struck midnight. We were right behind Mr. Haberkorn\u2019s family in the line, but they were taking a really long time looking for their tickets, so I \u2014 ticket in hand \u2014 told his mother, \u2018Excuse me, I have to get through.\u2019 She clearly didn\u2019t hear what I said, and immediately screamed at the top of her lungs, \u2018She called me a Jew!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She says, \u201cI was mortified and I tried to calm things down by explaining, \u2018I didn\u2019t call anyone a Jew, I was just asking to get through.\u2019 But by this point, Mr. Haberkorn\u2019s wife and his daughters were yelling at me, and everyone in the restaurant was looking. I had no idea they were even Jewish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She says she\u2019s been accused of being anti-Semitic, but \u201cI am not, my grandmother is Jewish, so I am 25 percent Jewish. I never said that word, I would never say that to anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Warning: Graphic language<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/4137224154001\/default_default\/index.html?videoId=5701701412001\" width=\"618\" height=\"348\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Cooke says she and her date immediately fled the restaurant to escape the alleged Haberkorn hysterics. It was outside on the street that Haberkorn finally caught up with her. He had been in the bathroom as the slur scene started. Cooke claims, \u201cHe came out in a rage.\u201d In the street scuffle that followed, she says, \u201cMr. Haberkorn tried to push my boyfriend around, and I didn\u2019t know what to do, so I hit him with my purse [a Lulu Guinness mirror perspex clutch]. I was defending my boyfriend, I was frightened, I was scared, but I never intended to hurt Mr. Haberkorn.\u201d<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Her lawyer claimed in court Thursday that it was Cooke who was injured in the melee and that \u201cmy client clearly has a broken finger,\u201d after Haberkorn followed her down the street and \u201ccontinued to yell offensive slurs\u201d before allegedly pushing her. Cooke tells us, \u201cI was scared for my own safety, and that of my boyfriend, so we ran away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cooke admits that she\u2019d had more than a few drinks that night but insists she has a clear recollection of the incident.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-related alignright\">\n<div id=\"more-on\" class=\"module--see-also box module inline related desktop\">\n<div class=\"module-title inline\">\n<h4><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"module-wrapper \">\n<article class=\"story-photo-box oversize-headline\">\n<div class=\"headline-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"headline-container\">\n<h3 class=\"postid-4374634\"><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tracking\"><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>She adds, \u201cThe guy Haberkorn \u2014 who is a professional personal injury lawyer \u2014 did a number on me, then he looked me up, found out who my dad is, and saw dollar signs when he learned my name.\u201d She continued, \u201cHe assumed I was a billionaire, which I\u2019m not, I live on a budget like anyone else, I get a monthly allowance, I am not shopping on Madison Avenue, I take the subway, and I am very frugal. I am not Paris Hilton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Haberkorn\u2019s attorney, Andrew T. Miltenberg, denied the allegations. There has been no civil suit filed in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Cooke underwent surgery on her finger last week, we hear,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pagesix.com\/2018\/01\/04\/alleged-jew-bashing-socialite-gets-a-public-defender\/?_ga=2.43440353.517650893.1515457253-36443488.1484111516\">and has filed a cross-complaint against Haberkorn<\/a>. He\u2019s received a desk appearance ticket and his lawyer says he\u2019s fully cooperating.<\/p>\n<p>Cooke, who\u2019s been charged with second-degree felony assault, added, \u201cIt is so unfair because I didn\u2019t do anything, I didn\u2019t call anyone a Jew. Now I have people sending me messages saying that I should kill myself, that I should never have been born.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4377242\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img class=\"size-nypost-inline-default wp-image-4377242 lazyloaded\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 300px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nyppagesix.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/cooke-kent.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, http:\/\/nyppagesix.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/cooke-kent.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, http:\/\/nyppagesix.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/cooke-kent.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, http:\/\/nyppagesix.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/cooke-kent.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=600 600w\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/nyppagesix.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/cooke-kent.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, http:\/\/nyppagesix.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/cooke-kent.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, http:\/\/nyppagesix.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/cooke-kent.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, http:\/\/nyppagesix.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/cooke-kent.jpeg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=600 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Jacqueline Kent Cooke\u2019s hand<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Manhattan DA Jorge Deossa has said the incident was being investigated as a possible hate crime. Cooke \u2014 whose father was worth more than $800 million before his death in 1997 \u2014 is scheduled to return to court Feb. 15.<\/p>\n<p>Haberkorn\u2019s attorney Miltenberg told us in a statement: \u201cNot surprisingly, Ms. Kent-Cooke has come up with yet another version of events, as she scrambles to avoid responsibility for her offensive behavior. It was Mr. Haberkorn\u2019s wife, not his mother, who clearly heard Ms. Kent-Cooke use the word \u2018Jew,\u2019 and we are advised that a number of restaurant patrons reported witnessing Ms. Kent-Cooke\u2019s behavior and hearing her spew her anti-Jewish venom. And it was Ms. Kent-Cooke, who assaulted Mr. Haberkorn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cMs. Kent-Cooke\u2019s suggestion that Mr. Haberkorn is just after her money is Ms. Kent-Cooke looking to place blame instead of taking responsibility. The mere fact that Mr. Haberkorn is a civil litigator has absolutely nothing to do with Ms. Kent-Cooke\u2019s anti-Semitic tirade directed at Mr. Haberkorn\u2019s family. In fact, until it was confirmed by the NYPD, Mr. Haberkorn had no idea as to her identity. Even now, to Mr. Haberkorn and his family, she remains the woman that assaulted him, opened up two wounds on his head, and is now a beacon of prejudice, intolerance and anti-Semitism. The only difference, is that she encountered a man who is going to see that justice is served. That is what she is really upset about, isn\u2019t it? She is not sorry, only embarrassed in her social circles. Instead of more half-truths and fabrications, Ms. Kent-Cooke, how about an apology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A rep for Cooke clarified after our story posted that she meant that the woman who \u201cscreamed at the top of her lungs, \u2018She called me a Jew!\u2019\u201d was Haberkorn\u2019s wife, not his mother.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pagesix.com\/2018\/01\/09\/socialite-in-alleged-jew-bashing-meltdown-says-shes-the-victim\/?_ga=2.149066546.589591828.1515611046-898972886.1511749728\">http:\/\/pagesix.com\/2018\/01\/09\/socialite-in-alleged-jew-bashing-meltdown-says-shes-the-victim\/?_ga=2.149066546.589591828.1515611046-898972886.1511749728<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacqueline Kent Cooke files cross complaint after alleged assault<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}