ALBANY – “Wild Woman” state Sen. Ada Smith will refuse to cooperate at today’s planned meeting of a special Senate panel named to investigate her aberrant behavior, The Post has learned.
The meeting will be canceled if she doesn’t cooperate, and Smith, a Queens Democrat, will face stiff administrative penalties in the Senate, said a source.
Smith, most recently accused in a criminal complaint of throwing hot coffee in an aide’s face, has also sought to “intimidate” the four panel members by threatening to subpoena them if there is a criminal trial, a Senate source said. Smith’s lawyer, James Long, said he told Sen. Carl Andrews (D-Brooklyn), the panel chair, that the hearings “would impair my client’s right to a fair trial and potentially creates additional witnesses [panel members] we could subpoena at trial.”
Smith is due in court Thursday on the latest charges.
Long said if the panel’s meeting wasn’t cancelled, he’d show up with Smith and refuse to allow her to answer questions.
Smith has repeatedly been accused of violent behavior during her 18-year tenure, including biting a cop, running a checkpoint and attacking another aide with a butcher knife.