Police Commissioner Ray Kelly remained tight-lipped today when reporters asked him about the rape allegations swirling around his son.
At at a promotion ceremony at Police Headquarters, Kelly said, “I’m not answering anything related to that matter.”
“All those questions are for the district attorney,” he added.
The NYPD has referred the case to the Manhattan DA’s office because of the conflict of interest.
On his weekly Friday radio show, Mayor Bloomberg said, “[Manhattan DA] Cy Vance is a tough, smart guy. He’s the district attorney of Manhattan, which maybe is the most visible district attorney job in the country.
“There’s always going to be high-profile, complicated cases. There’s always going to be second-guessing. He’s tough enough to focus on the job. I’m not worried about Cy Vance.”
This comes as The Post reported today that DA investigators have serious doubts regarding the veracity that Kelly sexually assaulted a woman in Manhattan last October.
Investigators “don’t buy her story,” a source said yesterday of the woman, a law-firm paralegal who told probers that Greg Kelly got her pregnant during the alleged attack and that she had an abortion.
“It sounds like a bunch of BS.”
Another source said, “It sounds like she got caught [cheating] by her boyfriend, and then he forces her hand: ‘If you’re not lying, you better report.’ ”
The DA’s office is suspicious of the accuser for several reasons, including a three-month lag in reporting the alleged rape to police.
Sources told The Post last night that the woman doesn’t remember some details of what Kelly did to her — because she was so intoxicated — but claims she knows they had sex and she didn’t consent.
Investigators also have doubts that a rape victim would stay in contact with her supposed attacker, as the woman claims she did, the sources said.
“The length of time” the woman took to complain “is a problem,” the source said.
And “you don’t communicate with someone who raped you.”
Another law-enforcement source echoed the suspicion: “The fact pattern is very suspicious … It just reeks of BS.”
And investigators were surprised that her boyfriend would confront Ray Kelly directly at a public event well before she ever contacted cops herself, which the NYPD has confirmed.
Greg Kelly, through his lawyer, has given the DA’s office text messages he exchanged with the woman after the encounter, which he hopes will help him avoid charges, sources said.
The woman claims she was attacked on Oct. 8 in a downtown office after a boozy night with the unmarried Kelly, who is the co-anchor of Fox 5’s “Good Day New York” and a former US Marine.