Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman will not be charged in abuse investigation

Eric Schneiderman, the embattled former New York Attorney General who stepped down from his post after multiple women came forward with allegations of assault, will not face criminal charges for the incidents reported, the prosecutor tasked with overseeing the case told CNN.

Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas told CNN Thursday morning that her team interviewed members of Schneiderman’s security detail, employees who worked with him at the New York Attorney General’s office and witnesses. Singas was appointed to be the special prosecutor overseeing the investigation.

“I personally interviewed each of the women who cooperated with our investigation along with their attorneys,” Singas told CNN in a statement. “I believe the women who shared their experiences with our investigation team, however legal impediments, including statutes of limitations, preclude criminal prosecution.”

Schneiderman resigned six months ago after two women spoke to The New Yorker on the record saying that Schneiderman hit and chocked them, and that they later sought medical attention because of what happened.

The women, Tanya Selvaratnam and Michelle Manning Barish, each alleged that they had been romantically involved with Schneiderman but that the violence they had experienced was non-consensual.

Selvaratnam told The New Yorker that Schneiderman threatened to tap her phone, among other threats.

Singas added that the investigation found no misconduct by Schneiderman’s staff in the Office of the Attorney General.

CNN reached out to the two named accusers for their thoughts on the announcement. Selvaratnam had no comment. An attorney for Barish has not responded.

Hillary Clinton Mega-Donor Nabbed in NXIVM Sex Cult Arrest (did Schneiderman destroy evidence)
constitution.com ^ | 7/24/18 | Andrew West
FR Posted on 7/25/2018, 1:15:04 AM by a little elbow grease

(snip) -- There is another echelon of society that you and I may never experience. It is reserved for the unhealthily wealthy who have long abandoned the concept of consequences. And, without consequences, these bizarre, left-leaning cretins of depravity have turned to sickening and abhorrent behavior that is just now finding exposure in the media. Such is the case with deplorable Hollywood sex cult NXIVM, whose leadership has found themselves targeted once again this week.

Federal agents on Tuesday arrested NXIVM co-founder Nancy Salzman, her daughter Lauren Salzman and longtime bookkeeper Kathy Russell. Clare Bronfman, the longtime operations director for NXIVM, a secretive self-help group, and an heiress to the Seagram’s liquor empire, was also arrested and will appear in federal court in Brooklyn Federal Court. Russell and the Salzmans will appear in federal court in Albany, New York. And why is this considered such an important political happening? Because Clare Bronfman is a big-time Hillary Clinton supporter and donor.

Hillary Clinton donor Clare Bronfman has been arrested as part of the case against upstate New York’s NXIVM sex cult. The cult was financed by Bronfman and led by Keith Raniere and Allison Mack, who are both charged with human trafficking. Bronfman reportedly performed human experiments on people at the cult’s Rainbow Cultural Garden, according to a former cult employee. Bronfman also reportedly hacked Hillary Clinton’s emails through emails that Clinton exchanged with Bronfman’s father Edgar. (Excerpt) Read more at constitution.com …

Keep this on the front burner. Schneiderman had better have some answers.....or else.
As the NYAG, Schneiderman (then a full blown sex deviate behind closed doors)
suddenly announced he had suspended his investigations into Albany's NXIVM sex cult.

Despite an admission that he had accumulated tons of evidence, Schneiderman decided to look the other way.
WE HEREBY DEMAND TO KNOW: What did Schneiderman do with all the evidence?
If evidence has been destroyed, Schneiderman has got problems even bigger than those found in his bedroom.

Schneiderman supporter Sen Kristen Gillibrand must call for the FBI
to investigate her to prove she has no connection to Albany's Nxivm sex cult
vanity | Sept. 21, 2018 | By Kevin Collins / FR Posted by jmaroneps37

Let’s take New York Democrat Senator Kristen Gillibrand at her word regarding the duty of anyone who is accused of wrong doing to ask to be investigated. Senator Gillibrand has said that by not asking for an FBI investigation of the “charges” against him, Judge Brett Kavanaugh is not acting like an innocent person. This is an especially strange statement in view of the lack of specifics in the charges against the judge.

The accuser has not been able to supply even a vague idea of the year of this attack, where it took place or who else was present during the alleged instant. She has nothing but her “repressed” memory to rely on; which is just not good enough. Nevertheless, it is quite obvious that Senator Gillibrand feels that, despite the flimsiness of the charge against him, in order to be a righteous person, and an honorable officer of the court, Judge Kavanaugh is compelled to demand the FBI investigate him.

By her own reasoning, Senator Gillibrand should demand the FBI investigate her since there is ample evidence that her father worked for the sexual predators of Nxivm at a time when she had moved to Albany to be near him. She denies any knowledge of her father’s activities, but how do we know she is being truthful?

Both she and her father are lawyers.

It is an uncontested fact that Gillibrand’s father Doug Rutnik worked as an attorney for Nxivm for four months in 2004 at a rate of $25,000 per month. In 2004 Gillibrand left her NYC based law firm to work in its Albany office. She said it was to prepare to run for Congress in a district nearby, but she did not run until 2006. She was in Albany during the period her father was working for Nxivm.

According to the U K Daily Mail, “[Doug] Rutnik [Kirsten Gillibrand’s father] was hired by [Keith] Raniere [the leader of the sex slave cult known as Nxivm] as a lobbyist in 2004 and was later sued by him. The case was eventually settled for $100,000. On Tuesday [March 27, 2018], a Gillibrand spokesman reiterated a November [2017] statement to the [New York Post] claiming that she knew nothing about the case.” 'Senator Gillibrand had never heard of this group until she recently read about them in the newspaper,' said spokesman Glen Caplin. 'She is glad that federal and state prosecutors have taken action in this case.' ‘Raniere, 57, is the leader of NXIVM, a secretive group headquartered in Albany. ‘He is accused of branding female followers with his initials as part of an initiation.’

That covers Senator Gillibrand until sometime in November of 2017. But this raises the question:If Senator Gillibrand now knows her father worked for a vicious sex slave ring for four months, not in the early 1990s but specifically in a four month span of time in 2004, why should she not be investigated so we can be sure she too was not an employee of, or a recruiter for NXIVM? As an attorney, and therefore an officer of the court, Kirsten Rutnik Gillibrand must ask for an FBI investigation of her involvement with Nxivm to prove she was not working for Keith Raniere in 2004!

Senator Gillibrand has said that she worked on “abused women” cases during her time as an active lawyer in Albany. Was she recruiting women for Keith Raniere? How can we ever be sure about her until the FBI clears her?

cont

....there is ample evidence that Sen Gillibrand's father worked for the Nxivm sex cult in Albany. Gillibrand’s father Doug Rutnik was Nxivm's attorney for four months in 2004 at $25,000 per month. In 2004 Gillibrand left her NYC based law firm to work in his Albany office....during the period her father was working for Nxivm.

Isn't that a coincidence? Gillibrand endorsed Eric Schneiderman for AG. Schneiderman later investigated Nxivm.......
then Schneiderman suddenly closed the case BUT nobody knows what happened to the evidence.

Schneiderman was ousted as NYAG b/c women came forward, said he slapped,
choked and spat at them in his bedroom. The "tolerant and compassionate" liberal
called a woman of color his "brown slave." The NYAG threatened to tap the phone of one woman.

Keep this on the front burner. Schneiderman had better have some answers.....or else.

WE HEREBY DEMAND TO KNOW: What did Schneiderman do with all the evidence he, himself, said he accumulated?

If evidence has been destroyed, Schneiderman has got problems even bigger than those found in his bedroom.

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