ALBANY — Gov. Paterson’s lawyer says the governor has done nothing wrong — despite a new report that he helped draft what would have been a misleading public statement about a top aide’s domestic-abuse case.

Attorney Theodore Wells Jr. was responding to yesterday’s report in The New York Times that Paterson told his press secretary on Feb. 16 the key points to include in a press release about the dispute between David Johnson and then-girlfriend Sherr-una Booker last Oct. 31 — including that it was not violent.

The newspaper wrote that Booker refused to endorse the statement and told an intermediary that it was a lie.

The Governor’s Office said the next day that no independent evidence substantiated any claim of violence.

A week later, Paterson suspended Johnson and requested an investigation. “The governor has not done anything wrong,” Wells said yesterday.