Lindsay Lohan\'s dad sentenced to prison
 
BY ROBIN TOPPING
STAFF WRITER

Ignoring Michael Lohan\'s pleas to put him in a long-term alcohol treatment program, a Nassau County Court judge Friday sentenced the father of teen actress Lindsay Lohan to serve time in an upstate prison for attempted assault and other charges.

As family members looked on -- some supportive and some audibly angry -- Michael Lohan told Judge Claire Weinberg, "I\'m asking you for a chance to be the father my kids need, not someone stashed in a jail upstate."
   
But Weinberg sentenced Lohan to 1-1/3 to 4 years in prison for second-degree attempted assault, aggravated unlicensed driving and other charges.

Lohan, 45, acknowledged a drinking problem, saying, "That was only the bandage. I was drowning my sorrows."

He said he had turned to alcohol because he was upset over not being able to see his four children for the past nine months under an order of protection obtained by his estranged wife, Dina, during a contentious divorce.

He said he had been a good father who had coached his children in several sports, and begged the judge not to bar him from seeing them.

"I have never done a thing to put them in harm\'s way," he said. But the Huntington man added: "I have a problem with my emotions when it comes to my kids."

The charges stem from Lohan\'s attacking his brother-in-law, Matthew Sullivan, with a shoe at a party in May 2004, a February 2005 car accident in which he hit a utility pole while driving drunk and other incidents.

Prosecutor Joy Watson, who asked for maximum prison time, said Michael Lohan has "absolutely no remorse" for his conduct and "has demonstrated a complete disrespect for this court\'s orders and the criminal justice system."

Lohan\'s attorney, Rory Calhoun of Garden City, said his client successfully completed several alcohol treatment programs, but Weinberg contended, "The word \'successful\' is not accurate."

Weinberg made permanent orders of protection for Lohan to stay away from Dina Lohan and the Sullivan family.

Weinberg refused, however, to sign an order of protection submitted by Watson to keep the defendant away from Lindsay Lohan in Los Angeles. Watson said Dina Lohan had requested the order of protection for her daughter, but the judge said Lindsay Lohan is now over 18 and so would have to request the order herself in court.

Watson later said she would try to contact Lindsay Lohan directly but said she didn\'t believe it was necessary for her to come to court.

Afterward, members of the Lohan and Sullivan families declined to comment but Ty Dux, the security chief for the Lohans, challenged Lohan\'s assertion that he was a loving father.

"This is a guy who is a manipulator," Dux said. "He has done nothing but terrorize them."

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