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New York Attorney General, Who Has Called Harvey Weinstein’s Alleged Treatment of Women ‘Despicable,’ Resigns Amid Allegations That he Physically Abused Four Women

May 7, 2018  •  Post A Comment

Eric Schneiderman, New York’s attorney general, resigned Monday, just three hours after the New Yorker published a story wherein four women accused him of physical abuse.

The story, by Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow, says  “As [Schneiderman’s] prominence as a voice against sexual misconduct has risen, so, too, has the distress of four women with whom he has had romantic relationships or encounters. They accuse Schneiderman of having subjected them to nonconsensual physical violence. All have been reluctant to speak out, fearing reprisal. But two of the women, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam, have talked to The New Yorker on the record, because they feel that doing so could protect other women. They allege that he repeatedly hit them, often after drinking, frequently in bed and never with their consent. Manning Barish and Selvaratnam categorize the abuse he inflicted on them as ‘assault.’….”

The article continues, “A third former romantic partner of Schneiderman’s told Manning Barish and Selvaratnam that he also repeatedly subjected her to nonconsensual physical violence, but she told them that she is too frightened of him to come forward. (The New Yorker has independently vetted the accounts that they gave of her allegations.) A fourth woman, an attorney who has held prominent positions in the New York legal community, says that Schneiderman made an advance toward her; when she rebuffed him, he slapped her across the face with such force that it left a mark that lingered the next day. She recalls screaming in surprise and pain, and beginning to cry, and says that she felt frightened. She has asked to remain unidentified, but shared a photograph of the injury with The New Yorker.”

In a statement, Schneiderman told the magazine, “In the privacy of intimate relationships, I have engaged in role-playing and other consensual sexual activity. I have not assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in nonconsensual sex, which is a line I would not cross.”

Notes the New York Times, “Women’s issues had…been a focal point for Mr. Schneiderman, who had announced, for instance, a lawsuit against the company once run by the former filmmaker Harvey Weinstein, who was accused of decades of sexual misconduct. ‘We have never seen anything as despicable as what we’ve seen right here,’ Mr. Schneiderman said then.”

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  1. Another fraud exposed. The people of new York will be much better off without him.

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