# Schneiderman resigns after accusations of sexual violence

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**Created:** [May 8, 2018, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schneiderman-resigns-after-accusations-of-sexual-violence/813794 "2018-05-08T02:46:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 8, 2018, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/schneiderman-resigns-after-accusations-of-sexual-violence/813794/1 "2018-05-08T02:46:51Z")

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> **[New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Resigns Hours After Allegations...](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/05/new-york-attorney-general-eric-schneiderman-resigns-hours-after-allegations-emerge-of-physical-abuse/)**
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> Four women have accused the attorney general of physical violence.

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> New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman just announced his resignation mere hours after the New Yorker published explosive allegations from four women detailing his physical abuse.
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> > Two of the women, Michelle Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam, said they had been choked and hit repeatedly by Mr. Schneiderman. Both said they had sought medical treatment. Another woman, a lawyer, said she was slapped violently across the face. A fourth woman also said she had similar experiences.
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> > All the women in the article, who had been romantically involved with Mr. Schneiderman, said the violence was not consensual.
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> Schneiderman has denied the allegations, telling the New Yorker, “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 non-consensual sex, which is a line I would not cross.”

Admittedly, the timing of this is suspicious, given that there are powerful people who’d like him to go away. However, four different women are making accusations so I don’t want to just dismiss it as a political attack.