The Los Angeles Times today reported allegations that HBO chairman Chris Albrecht had, in 1991, shoved and choked former employee Sasha Emerson, then HBO Independent Productions senior VP, with whom he’d just ended an affair. That incident, combined with Albrecht’s over-the-weekend arrest for battering his current girlfriend was the final straw for Time Warner, which is expected to announce shortly that Albrecht’s temporary “leave of absense” will become permanent.