The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office will probe the allegations of domestic abuse and assault against former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, which led to his resignation just hours after they surfaced Monday evening.
“Our office has opened an investigation into the recently reported allegations concerning Mr. Schneiderman,” Danny Frost, communications director for the Manhattan DA, told TPM in a statement Tuesday.
The announcement of the investigation into allegations of abuse and intimidation comes just days after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo directed Schneiderman to probe Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance’s office for its handling of a 2015 investigation into accusations of sexual assault against move mogul Harvey Weinstein, whom more than 50 women have accused of sexual harassment or assault in the past year.
Schneiderman — who has a history of activism surrounding women’s rights — resigned just three hours after the New Yorker reported on allegations from four different women on patterns of abuse and assault that allegedly included choking and slapping, intimidation, death threats and demeaning behavior.
In a resignation statement Monday evening, Schneiderman said he “strongly” contested the allegations.
So Vance whom Schneiderman was investigating will now instead be investigating Schneiderman. I see vengeance here.
What a mess! Caused, in part (but only in part) because Schneiderman and others of his generation–not to mention earlier generations–thought that they could be liberals/progressives and that how they behaved in private would never come back to hurt them.
I just hope that the lesson we learn is that people have to treat other people decently–whether male, female, black, white, brown, Asian or whatever. I fear, however, that what we learn will be in the form of backlash against those who resist ill-treatment or even outright bigotry.
Glad he resigned, but why are Trump and Greitens still in office? No, both parties ARE NOT the same.
Please oh dear gawd do not let this thread devolve like the Tom Brokaw one…!
On another note, I’m sad that Schneiderman did these things, assuming the allegations are true. He has led some important investigations. I just wish sometimes that people I held in esteem didn’t do crappy things.