Hot-headed NY1 political anchor Dominic Carter is due in court today after being accused by his wife of punching, choking and kicking her in their suburban home, The Post has learned.
Cops were called to the Carters’ Rockland County house four times in the last two years for domestic disputes, police records show.
The most violent incident — in which Carter, 46, was arrested for assault — occurred Oct. 22, 2008.
That night, Marilyn told cops, Dominic twice punched her in the face, “causing a swollen bottom lip,” and grabbed her around her throat, “causing scratches and minor bleeding from behind her left ear,” police records show.
Dominic also repeatedly punched her in the right upper arm and “kicked her in her lower right shin, causing a small cut with minor bleeding,” the records said.
Marilyn Carter, 52, in recent days moved out of the couple’s Pomona home, sources said. They also said Dominic Carter is scheduled to appear today in Rockland County Family Court.
The domestic incidents came just after the anchor published a book, “No Momma’s Boy,” which revealed physical and sexual abuse he suffered as a young boy in The Bronx at the hands of his schizophrenic mother, who tried to strangle him as an infant.
Neither Carter nor his wife responded to calls seeking comment.
NY1 General Manager Steve Paulus said, “This is a domestic matter involving one of our employees and it’s our policy not to comment.”
Hours after The Post’s inquiries, Carter was noticeably absent from his seat hosting “Inside City Hall” last night.
Carter, who moderated the Oct. 13 mayoral debate between Mayor Bloomberg and Comptroller Bill Thompson, joined NY1 when Time Warner launched the channel in 1992.
Since then, he has interviewed virtually every big-name New York politician and made “Inside City Hall” must-see TV for local political junkies.
In 1997, he was told to take a few days off after getting into a shoving match with an editor.
Carter married Marilyn in 1985 after graduating from SUNY Cortland, where they had secretly dated while he was a student and she was an administrator at the school, he wrote in his book. They have two children.
In 2007, their home life became increasingly rocky, and began drawing the attention of Ramapo town police, who patrol Pomona.
On March 14, 2007, the Carters’ daughter, Courtney, then 19, called 911 after her parents had an argument, a police report says.
“Dominic fled the scene prior to [police officers’] arrival,” according to the report.
Marilyn told cops that she and Dominic had “a verbal dispute” earlier in the day, and that it began again after she returned to the home after leaving for a while.
“Marilyn states Dominic became agitated and began yelling and cursing at her,” said the report.
No one was injured in that case, and no arrests were made.
Nearly a year later, on March 8, 2008, Ramapo cops again were called to the Carter residence.
“Marilyn reports that her husband . . . has been out of the house for a couple of days, and tonight, he took the kids to the movies and they came back and they had a verbal argument and she wants him to leave,” police wrote.
“She was concerned due to the fact that he has gotten physical in the past,” the report said. Police said Dominic agreed to leave the house to avoid further dispute.
But the next day, cops again were called to the Carter home — this time by Dominic.
The newsman, in a written statement for police, said Marilyn “refused to open the door to the house to me.”
He wrote that “my wife lied to the officers [and] said I hit her” during the call of the prior day.
Marilyn then “left the scene and advised she will be staying at a friend’s house until future time. Mr. Carter advised he will seek a divorce,” the police report said.
Additional reporting by Perry Chiaramonte and Candace Amos