If Gillibrand "believed" Schneiderman, probably everythng else she "believes" is fraudulent.
Somewhere along the line this stuff always evolves from “I am totally shocked. This is not the man I knew. I just never saw this coming” over to “Well, everyone knew. I mean, it was an open secret. But he supported the right causes, so I tolerated the behavior I had witnessed for years.”
They are all hypocrites.