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Assault claim vs. Carl’s aide Stone

Lora Como. (Shannon DeCelle)

The key campaign adviser to Republican gubernato rial candidate Carl Paladino once attacked and injured an attorney who was working as his aide in what a police source described as a “domestic incident,” the upstate woman has claimed.

The alleged assault by Roger Stone against Lora Como, 40, a former employee of the state Senate, occurred inside his Chelsea apartment last Thanksgiving weekend and left her with bruised ribs, Como told The Post.

Como, who sources said had been involved in a relationship with Stone, said she filed a formal complaint about the alleged assault with the 13th Precinct in Manhattan.

A high-level law-enforcement source confirmed that Como’s “domestic incident” complaint was filed and is retained in Police Department records.

Como, who says she spent months working for Stone, 58, in Florida and New York, claims they had a confrontation at his studio apartment at Chelsea Landmark, 55 West 25th St., after he allegedly flew into a rage because she had smoked a cigarette and he didn’t like the smell.

“He threw me to the ground and bruised my ribs. He was hostile and menacing and I wanted him arrested for assault and I went to the police,” said Como, who state payroll records show worked as a Senate research analyst from September 2006 to April 2009.

Stone, who is married, acknowledged that he had a major disagreement with Como at his apartment, but denied her version of the events.

“When I asked [her] to leave she became irate. I completely reject her assertion that I ever hit her or abused her in any physical way,” Stone said.

Stone, who referred to Como as “an excellent writer and a very good lawyer,” also contended that Como had been arrested in the Albany area earlier this year on a drug-related charge.

Como says she was charged with driving while intoxicated and possessing a small amount of cocaine. “The charges were dismissed and I pled to driving with ability impaired and I have no criminal record,” Como insisted.

Stone, a longtime GOP operative and self-styled political “dirty trickster,” was fired by then-Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno as a $20,000-a-month political adviser in August 2007, after being accused of making a threatening, late-night phone call to then-Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s father.

Como said that she initially went to the 13th Precinct about 8:30 p.m. after the alleged attack but that the police took no action. She said she called the precinct again the next morning and two police officers responded but couldn’t locate Stone.

She said she then decided not to pursue any further legal action against him. No charges were ever filed and the matter was dropped, Stone said.

The law-enforcement source told The Post that Como filed a “domestic incident” complaint at the 13th Precinct on Nov. 27, 2009.

“The report shows that police went to 55 West 25th St., that Lora Como called police to complain that Roger Stone shoved her to the floor. When the police arrived he was not there and they took a report for harassment,” said the source.

The source said police who responded to the complaint said that “there was nothing visual” proving that Como had been injured.

Last week, pictures of Stone marching in the Gay Pride Parade — shirtless and kissing a rainbow-colored star that was the only thing covering the breast of a female marcher — made headlines and embarrassed Paladino.