N.Y. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman accused of abusing four women
NY Gov. Cuomo wants him to resign
Eric Schneiderman has been accused of sexual harassment and ‘physical violence’, against four women
Allegedly, threatened to KILL victims and tap their phones
Tanya Selvaratnam and Michelle Manning Barish waived their anonymity to bring case AG Schneideman
Both women have accused 63-year-old New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman of abuse
Victims came forward, emboldened by #MeToo case against President Trumps’s executive sec, Rob Baker
Ironically Schneideman is spearheading the sexual harassment and ‘physical violence’, lawsuits against movie producer Harvey Weinstein
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has been accused of physically abusing four women.
New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, an outspoken supporter of the #MeToo movement against sexual harassment, stepped down from his post as the chief lawyer for the state of New York late Monday
The 63-year-old veteran prosecutor resigned within minutes of Gov. Andre cuomo calling for his resignation and just hours after a bombshell story had four ex-paramours accusing him of sexual-harassment and of physically abusing them
According to The New Yorker, the accusers charged that Schneiderman “repeatedly hit them, often after drinking, frequently in bed and never with their consent.”
At least two of the women who waved their rights to annonymity, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam, categorized the abuse as “assault.” The other two women declined to be identified because they feared reprisal, the magazine said.
Parish and Selvaratnam did not report the allegations to the police, but both said they sought medical attention after they were slapped hard across the ear and face.
They also said Schneiderman choked them.
Selvaratnam said Schneiderman followed up the abuse with threats, telling her that he could have her followed and have her phones tapped.
Barish and Selvaratnam both said he threatened to kill them if they broke up with him.
A Schneiderman representative told The New Yorker that the attorney general “never made any of these threats.”
In a statement, Schneiderman denied any wrongdoing.
“In the privacy of intimate relationships, I have engaged in role-playing and other consensual sexual activity,” Schneiderman said. “I have not assaulted anyone. I have never engaged in nonconsensual sex, which is a line I would not cross.”
Four ex-girlfriends including Tanya Selvaratnam and Michelle Manning Barish have accused New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman of abuse
In a statement, Gov. Cuomo called for his immediate resignation. “No one is above the law, including New York’s top legal officer,” Cuomo said.
“I will be asking an appropriate New York District Attorney to commence an immediate investigation and proceed as the facts merit,” it said. “My personal opinion is that given the damning pattern of facts and corroboration laid out in the article, I do not believe it is possible for Eric Schneiderman to continue to serve as Attorney General, and for the good of the office, he should resign.”
Schneiderman resigned within the hour, late Monday night.
Now the state Legislature will select his replacement until a new one is elected in November.
Schneiderman, who is divorced, was one of the most outspoken public officials as the walls caved in on Hollywood honcho Harvey Weinstein, who had been accused by dozens of women of rape and sexual assault.
“We have never seen anything as despicable as what we’ve seen right here,” Schneiderman said after filing a civil rights suit against Weinstein.
Selvaratnam said the abuse was not consensual.
Barish, [right], who was in a romantic relationship with Schneiderman from the summer of 2013 until early 2015, said she was outraged by the hypocrisy.
“You cannot be a champion of women when you are hitting them and choking them in bed, and saying to them, ‘You’re a f—ing whore,’ ” Barish told the magazine. “How can you put a perpetrator in charge of the country’s most important sexual-assault case?”
She said she could no longer stay silent.
“After the most difficult month of my life-I spoke up,” Barish wrote in a tweet. “For my daughter and for all women. I could not remain silent and encourage other women to be brave for me. I could not.”
Tanya Selvaratnam and Michelle Manning Barish have both accused New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman of abuse. Selvaratnam said the abuse was not consensual.
“The slaps started after we’d gotten to know each other,” she told The New Yorker. “It was at first as if he were testing me. Then it got stronger and harder. It wasn’t consensual. This wasn’t sexual playacting,” Selvaratnam told the magazine. “This was abusive, demeaning, threatening behavior.”
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“The slaps started after we’d gotten to know each other,” she told The New Yorker. “It was at first as if he were testing me. Then it got stronger and harder. It wasn’t consensual. This wasn’t sexual playacting,” Selvaratnam told the magazine. “This was abusive, demeaning, threatening behavior.”
In the midst of the violence, she said, Schneiderman made sexual demands.
“He was obsessed with having a threesome, and said it was my job to find a woman,” she said. “He said he’d have nothing to look forward to if I didn’t, and would hit me until I agreed.”
She said she did not agree to a threesome.
“Sometimes, he’d tell me to call him master, and he’d slap me until I did,” said [Tanya] Selvaratnam, who was born in Sri Lanka, and has dark skin. “He started calling me his ‘brown slave’ and demanding that I repeat that I was ‘his property.’ ”
She also said Schneiderman drank a lot and took sedatives.
Schneiderman has led the charge against President Trump, leading a coalition of attorneys general in a suit to block the White House on several immigration initiatives. He’d previously sued him over his now-defunct Trump University.
Donald Trump Jr. was quick to gloat, retweeting a tweet from his father.
“Weiner is gone, Spitzer is gone – next will be lightweight A.G. Eric Schneiderman,” the President tweeted in 2013. “Is he a crook? Wait and see, worse than Spitzer or Weiner.”
Schneiderman’s ex-wife, political consultant, Jennifer Cunningham, came to the AG’s defense.
“I’ve known Eric for nearly 35 years as a husband, father and friend,” Cunningham said in a statement. “These allegations are completely inconsistent with the man I know, who has always been someone of the highest character, outstanding values and a loving father.”
Manny Alicandro, a Republican lawyer who formally announced his candidacy for attorney general Monday, called the allegations against Schneiderman “absolutely disgusting” and called on him to resign.
“He’s a monster,” Alicandro said “I think he should turn himself into the authorities and resign. This pattern of abuse is mortifying.”
Gov. Cuomo released a statement saying Schneiderman should resign immediately.
“Weiner is gone, Spitzer is gone – next will be lightweight A.G. Eric Schneiderman,” the President tweeted in 2013. “Is he a crook? Wait and see, worse than Spitzer or Weiner.”
Schneiderman’s ex-wife, political consultant, Jennifer Cunningham, came to the AG’s defense.
When The New Yorker and the Times won a Pulitzer Prize last month, Schneiderman was one of the first to go online with a congratulatory comment.
“Without the reporting of the @nytimes and the @newyorker—and the brave women and men who spoke up about the sexual harassment they endured at the hands of powerful men—there would not be the critical national reckoning underway,” Schneiderman tweeted at the time. “A well-deserved honor.”
The women, two of them speaking on the record [photo], told the New Yorker‘s Ronan Farrow that Schneiderman had hit or slapped them without consent, often in bed, and frequently after drinking.
In a statement, Schneiderman, 63, said: ‘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.’
Two of Schneiderman’s former romantic partners, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam, came forward to share their allegations against him, which they classify as ‘assault’. Neither filed a police report at the time but both sought medical treatment.
A third former romantic partner, who was not named, shared similar stories of bedroom violence. A fourth woman, an attorney in New York, said Schneiderman made unwanted advances and then slapped her when she rebuffed him.
Four women have accused New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (above), who is suing Harvey Weinstein, of physical abuse
‘No one is above the law, including New York’s top legal officer, said New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, like Schneiderman a Democrat, in a statement on Monday night calling on the attorney general to resign.
‘My personal opinion is that, given the damning pattern of facts and corroboration laid out in the article, I do not believe it is possible for Eric Schneiderman to continue to serve as attorney general, and for the good of the office, he should resign,’ Cuomo said.
The Governor said that he would instruct a district attorney to open an immediate investigation and ‘proceed as the facts merit’.
A spokesman for the NYPD said there were no criminal complaints on file against Schneiderman, who lives in Manhattan. ‘If the NYPD receives complaints of a crime, it will investigate them thoroughly,’ the spokesman said in a statement to DailyMail.com.
In the article co-reported by Farrow, Manning Barish and Selvaratnam both said that Schneiderman threatened to kill them if they broke up with him. Selvaratnam also said that he claimed he could tap her phones or have her followed.
Manning Barish was in a relationship with Schneiderman, who divorced years ago, from 2013 until New Year’s Day in 2015.
‘His hypocrisy is epic,’ she told the New Yorker. ‘He’s fooled so many people.’
Manning Barish alleges that about a month into their relationship, Schneiderman slapped and choked her in the bedroom of his Upper West Side apartment. They had both been drinking and began to remonstrate after he called her a ‘whore’, she said.
‘All of a sudden, he just slapped me, open-handed and with great force, across the face, landing the blow directly onto my ear,’ she said. ‘He then used his body weight to hold me down, and he began to choke me. The choking was very hard. It was really bad. I kicked. In every fibre, I felt I was being beaten by a man.’
Selvaratnam said she first met Schneiderman in 2016 at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, and was swept off her feet.
Tanya Selvaratnam also dated Schneiderrman and has accused him of misconduct
She says that as they began dating, ‘it was a fairy tale that became a nightmare’.
‘The slaps started after we’d gotten to know each other,’ she recalled. ‘It was at first as if he were testing me. Then it got stronger and harder… It wasn’t consensual. This wasn’t sexual playacting. This was abusive, demeaning, threatening behavior.’
Selvaratnam, who is from Sri Lanka, claims that Schneiderman called her his ‘brown slave’ and demanded that she call him ‘Master’, slapping her until she complied.
She said that he also choked her, ‘cutting off my ability to breathe’.
Like Manning Barish, Selvaratnam said that Schneiderman regularly consumed huge quantities of alcohol.
Schneiderman was an ally to Hillary Clinton and had sued Donald Trump over his Trump University, and his mood grew dark and despondent after Trump won the presidential election, Selvaratnam said.
The day before Trump’s Inauguration, Selvaratnam said she rushed to the hospital after Schneiderman fell in a drunken stupor and cut his forehead, requiring stitches. A public appearance was canceled and the story at the time was that he’d fallen while running. Now a spokesman says Schneiderman ‘fell in the bathroom while completely sober’, but was embarrassed and so told staff he’d been running.
Selvaratnam’s relationship with Schneiderman ended in the fall of 2017.
Ironically, given the stunning claims against him, Schneiderman authored New York’s law against strangulation while in the state Senate.
Four women called out the ‘hypocrisy’ in the actions of the AG have accused New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman of misconduct
His law created specific penalties for choking and targeted domestic abusers, for whom strangulation is known to often be a precursor to deadly violence.
Schneiderman has long been a vocal advocate for women’s rights and a loud proponent of the #MeToo movement.
In February, Schneiderman filed a civil rights lawsuit against Weinstein and his company.
‘The Weinstein Company repeatedly broke New York law by failing to protect its employees from pervasive sexual harassment, intimidation, and discrimination,’ Schneiderman said in a statement at the time.
The accusers against Schneiderman who came forward said they had long remained silent for fear of damaging the work was doing for feminist causes.
Ultimately, it was DailyMail.com’s reporting on domestic abuse allegations against former White House Secretary Rob Porter that convinced Schneiderman’s accusers to come forward, they said.
‘After Rob Porter, I was struggling about whether to come forward. I felt guilt and shame that I was encouraging other women to speak out but wasn’t doing the same. I was a hypocrite. I was in tears,’ said Manning Barish.
She and Selvaratnam both said that the decision to come forward was anguishing.
In a tweet shortly after the New Yorker published the report, Manning Barish wrote: ‘After the most difficult month of my life-I spoke up. For my daughter and for all women. I could not remain silent and encourage other women to be brave for me. I could not…’
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