Nassau County DA demands local Dems distance themselves from candidate Nicole Aloise

The Nassau County DA is demanding her election foe condemn a Democratic ally’s decade-old law-school paper that said women may fabricate rape claims to hide their promiscuity or as a fantasy.

GOP DA Anne Donnelly has said her Dem opponent in November, Nicole Aloise, needs to disavow the paper written by fellow Democrat and county Legislator Seth Koslow, who is running for county executive.

“As someone who has spent decades prosecuting violent criminals, including rapists, I know firsthand the courage it takes for a survivor to come forward,” Donnelly told The Post. 

She called Koslow’s writings in his 2013 law article on rape-shield statutes and social media “disqualifying” and “anti-woman.’’

The DA said he has “no business serving in public office” because of them and that anything short of condemnation from Aloise is “unacceptable.”

“Anyone seeking to be Nassau County District Attorney must make it clear that rhetoric like this — rhetoric that could discourage women from reporting rape — has no place in our community,” Donnelly said. 

“Nicole Aloise must condemn Seth Koslow, rebuke his disgusting anti-woman comments, and make it clear that she will not tolerate this kind of rhetoric,’’ the DA said.

“The women of Nassau County deserve nothing less.’’

Aloise’s campaign has so far refused to distance herself from Koslow.

A rep for Koslow, a former prosecutor-turned-criminal defense lawyer before taking office, said the passages in question were all cited arguments from other sources, not a manifesto of his personal beliefs, and he accused Republicans of weaponizing an academic paper for political gain.

Aloise said Donnelly is the one failing survivors.

The Dem DA hopeful pointed to a massive spike in reported local sexual assaults and the shuttering of the SAFE Center — Nassau’s only nonprofit serving victims of sexual abuse, which closed under her watch because of a lack of county funding.

“The real test for a district attorney is keeping Nassau County safe — but under Donnelly, rape is up 130%, and she’s botched cases and let sexual predators go free on Long Island,” said Ellen McCormick, Aloise’s campaign manager, to The Post.

Koslow’s campaign also dismissed the attacks against him as “bulls–t” and said the controversial lines are being ripped out of context. 

The 30–page article, published in The Touro Law Review while Koslow was still a law student at the school, argued rape shield rules had swung “to the extreme” against defendants and should be reformed to allow social media evidence in court, according to a copy obtained by The Post.

The focus of Koslow’s article examined how he believed courts should handle the collision between rape shield statutes and the explosion of social media at the time.

But his campaign and political allies stressed it was a school paper and his goal was never to diminish survivors of sexual assault.

“[Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman] will do anything to cover up his administration’s complete and utter failure including completely distorting Seth Koslow’s writings from over a decade ago, when he was a law student — to distract from his own record of turning his back on vulnerable women,” Nassau County Democratic Chairman Jay Jacobs said on Koslow’s behalf Monday.

But the article’s resurfacing has already caused an uproar in the county, including partly thanks to a new TV ad featuring the sisters of 21-year-old murder-rape victim Sarah Goode unloading on Koslow for the article.

The ad was paid for by Koslow’s Republican opponent, Blakeman.