Exclusive | NYC prosecutor used clout with DA, NYPD to rig arrest of NYT reporter hubby in bitter custody battle: lawsuit

A Manhattan prosecutor recruited her pals in the DA’s office to rig a criminal case against her estranged New York Times scribe hubby as part of a nasty custody battle — and got the NYPD in on it, a scathing federal lawsuit claims.Assistant District Attorney Amanda Goun conspired to have her husband, health-care reporter Joseph Goldstein, busted on trumped-up assault and child-abuse charges in 2022 to win custody of their two young children — and even coached the kids to lie about their dad’s reputed abuse, alleges the Manhattan federal complaint reviewed by The Post.“Rather than accept the determination of the responding NYPD officers who had thoroughly investigated the matter, defendant Goun chose to leverage her position of influence and authority as a DANY prosecutor to pursue false criminal felony charges against Mr.Goldstein,” the father’s suit claims.The suit was filed by Goldstein on May 16 and names Goun, two other prosecutors in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and two NYPD employees as defendants.Goun and the other prosecutors, Kelly Keating and Lawrence Newman, who now works for the Brooklyn DA’s Office, did not respond to Post requests for comment.A rep for the Manhattan DA’s Office declined to discuss the case.“We are aware of the lawsuit and referred it to the [city] Law Department,” the representative said.A representative for the Brooklyn DA’s Office declined to comment, noting the alleged conspiracy took place before the office hired Newman out of the NYPD’s legal department.The NYPD did not respond to Post requests for comment about the complaint, which names department employees Detective Rachel Lutz and police Officer Carmen Fabian as co-defendants.

The Post’s attempts to reach the cops were not immediately successful.The suit says Goun and Goldstein met in 2014 and were married in August 2015.Once they had children, Goun left her Manhattan DA’s Office job to raise the kids before returning to work in 2...