Brett Kavanaugh implicated in bar dispute after UB40 concert

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was accused of throwing ice at a man during an altercation at a bar while in college.

A report released Tuesday by police in New Haven, Connecticut, says Kavanaugh, then a junior at Yale, was questioned after the 1985 incident but wasn’t arrested.

The report says Dom Cozzolino, then 21, told police that Kavanaugh threw ice at him for “some unknown reason.” Cozzolino said he then got hit on the ear with a glass. His ear was bleeding and he went to the hospital for treatment, the report said.

Chad Ludington, a Yale classmate of Kavanaugh’s, told the New York Times the altercation happened while they were drinking at a bar called Demery’s after seeing a concert by the reggae group UB40.

He said members of their group had been staring at Cozzolino because they thought he was Ali Campbell, the frontman of UB40. Cozzolino objected to the scrutiny. In Ludington’s retelling, Kavanaugh “threw his beer” at Cozzolino, and their friend Chris Dudley threw the glass.

Dudley and Cozzolino didn’t immediately return messages on Tuesday.

The White House noted that Kavanaugh wasn’t arrested or charged and questioned the incident’s relevance.

Meanwhile, Mark Judge, a high school friend of Kavanaugh’s, has completed his interview with FBI agents.

His attorney, Barbara “Biz” Van Gelder, wouldn’t say Tuesday when the interview concluded or what Judge was asked. Judge is one of multiple people the FBI has already interviewed as part of its reopened background investigation into Kavanaugh.

On Monday, Van Gelder said her client had been questioned by the FBI but the interview was “not completed.”