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Courtesy of Pam Martens.

Eric Schneiderman, New York State Attorney General, Will Resign Today, May 8, 2018

Eric Schneiderman, New York State Attorney General, Will Resign Today, May 8, 2018

Last evening two highly respected reporters at the New Yorker published the accounts of four women concerning the sitting New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s physical and psychological assaults on them. Schneiderman announced his resignation as the state’s top cop three hours after the article was published.

The reporters on the story are Jane Mayer, one of the most accomplished investigative reporters in the U.S., and Ronan Farrow, a recent recipient of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for his series of articles on movie producer Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual assaults on numerous women.

The accounts of the four women involving Schneiderman are nothing short of horrifying. Two of the women, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam, went on the record using their names. Barish was involved with Schneiderman on and off for about two years from 2013 until New Year’s Day in 2015. Selvaratnam lasted for approximately one year from approximately the middle of 2016 until the fall of 2017 according to the article.

The abuse three of the women describe they endured while continuing in the relationship with Schneiderman paints a portrait of battered woman syndrome – a condition where women blame themselves or believe their abuser when he says he is sorry.

Last evening, following the published accounts, Schneiderman issued this statement:

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