NYPD detectives have reached out to two of the four women who claimed they were brutalized by former Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a police source said Monday.
The women’s sickening accounts of how the former top prosecutor would allegedly get drunk and hit and choke them were revealed earlier this month in The New Yorker magazine.
The two women who spoke to the magazine using their names have been contacted by investigators with the NYPD Special Victims’ Division, the source said. It wasn’t clear if they had talked to the women.
The named women who came forward are Manning Barish and Tanya Selvaratnam.
Barish noted in the piece that Schneiderman had been one of the leading voices against sexual misconduct in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
“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,’” Manning Barish said of Schneiderman.
“His hypocrisy is epic,” she said. “He’s fooled so many people.”
Selvaratnam insisted that Schneiderman’s alleged abuse be labeled “assault” — saying it resembled something you’d have seen him condemning in court as attorney general.
A third woman didn’t speak to the magazine but talked to a fellow accuser about Schneiderman. The fourth woman, a lawyer, sent photos of her injuries to the publication. The two women who weren’t named haven’t been interviewed, sources said.
Schneiderman resigned as attorney general after the allegations surfaced.
He has denied any wrongdoing.