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Eric Schneiderman’s Inevitable Fall (open secret to Dems)
City Journal ^ | 5/8/2018 | Seth Barron

Posted on 05/08/2018 6:40:10 PM PDT by RightGeek

The New York attorney general’s dark-side personal life was an open secret in Democratic Party circles.

New York State attorney general Eric Schneiderman has resigned, just hours after it was reported that he had been accused of violent assaults on women he had dated. These allegations, which include threats that Schneiderman made to stalk and kill the women if they told on him, came as a shock—except to anyone who has followed his career in politics. Schneiderman’s louche ethics have been well known. You didn’t need an “in” at Albany watering holes; just reading the newspapers would have told you plenty.

In 2010, when Schneiderman first ran for statewide office, he was involved in a hit-and-run accident. Then a state senator, he claimed to have been a passenger in his own car when his 22-year-old staffer Rachel Kagan—niece of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan—smashed into a parked car and drove away, after causing $3,000 worth of damage. A passerby witnessed the crash and wrote down Schneiderman’s license plate. Schneiderman later told the owner of the parked car that he “disciplined the staffer,” and offered to pay for the damage, though his office insisted that it was “outrageous” to call the incident a hit-and-run.

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But Schneiderman was such an exemplar of a progressive-activist hero—suing Exxon, working in concert with Robert Mueller to obtain pardon-proof convictions against Trump associates, speaking at the Women’s March—that people who probably knew better looked away from evidence of his wrongdoing.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
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To: Luke21

True.

The leftist media are biased, censoring, propagandists who would sell out Americans to sow chaos here and let us be prey to communists and socialists who want to replace our way of life without our consent.


21 posted on 05/09/2018 6:57:59 AM PDT by frank ballenger (End non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we're finishid.)
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To: RightGeek
The New York attorney general’s dark-side personal life was an open secret in Democratic Party circles.

So ultra liberal Governor Andy Cuomo knew and did nothing? I'll bet Chris Cuomo at CNN will badger him about this.

22 posted on 05/09/2018 6:59:59 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: All
Looks like this might be connected to Schneiderman's signing off on Boy Scouts admittance of gays.

NEWS HEADLINE---NYAG Eric Schneiderman suspended the NY investigation of the Nxivm international sex cult...

LINK TO TIMES UNION ARTICLE https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/993687358225768448

23 posted on 05/09/2018 9:31:46 AM PDT by Liz
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To: RightGeek
I dont think NY Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand got the memo.


24 posted on 05/09/2018 9:34:52 AM PDT by Liz
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Then-AG Andrew Cuomo endorses eric Schneiderman's NY Senate bid.


25 posted on 05/10/2018 1:36:23 AM PDT by Liz
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To: frank ballenger

Hard to say it much better than you did. Calling them scum is a big move up for them.


26 posted on 05/11/2018 12:09:22 PM PDT by Luke21
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