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NYC wacko hits top Biden aide
By JAMIE SCHRAM and LAURA ITALIANO
Last Updated: 1:07 AM, September 13, 2012
A top aide to Vice President Joe Biden was beaten with a shoe and spit on when he tried to break up a fight between vagrants in Washington Square Park, officials said yesterday.
Alan Hoffman, a longtime confidant of Biden and his current deputy chief-of-staff, was more shaken up than injured in the Sept. 1 dust-up.
He and his wife, Lizzie, happened upon a man and another couple — all described by sources as “emotionally disturbed” — arguing and about to come to blows at around 2 p.m., sources said.
Lizzie tried to break up the fisticuffs when one of the men, Brian Smith, 43, turned his rage on her and threatened her with a blunt object salvaged from a construction site, according to sources.
That’s when Hoffman, a 46-year-old former assistant US attorney, jumped in to save her.
Smith then took off a sneaker, hit Hoffman over the head three times and spit on him before cops arrived.
In Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday, Smith pleaded guilty to harassment — a violation — and was sentenced to 15 days in the psych ward of Bellevue Hospital.
His commitment will extend beyond the 15-day sentence so he can receive treatment, according to a source briefed on the plea deal.
Hoffman, who was not in court, did not object to the plea, the sources said.
The vice president’s office confirmed the incident, but declined further comment.
Additional reporting by Brad Hamilton and Chuck Bennett


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