Oh, are we doing state news? How about the
fall of Eric Schneiderman? The New York General Attorney resigned after a massive scandal: allegations of beating and strangling women (while drunk, in bed, and always without consent). He resigned almost immediately after the
The New Yorker broke the story: he went from running for re-election to resigning in the course of three hours, without making any sort of statement to his staff or anything. (Incidentally, that makes that New Yorker article hilarious dated: it speaks entirely as if Schneiderman was going to be yet another public figure who lingered under the clouds of scandal until the public got sufficiently outraged, and now instead the
Post and
Daily News write about his walk of shame out of his apartment, through the mess of reporters waiting). Governor Cuomo has apparently appointed a special prosecutor to examine the allegations, and the Manhattan DA is also looking into it.
As the New York Attorney General, he was pretty big in a lot of current court cases, including a lot of cases involving New York's least favorite native son, D.J. Trump, and was in some ways the leading figure of the institutional part of the whole "resistance" movement, thing. He played a similar role in #MeToo, so it certainly reeks of hypocrisy (although, note: he is not accused of sexual assault, he is accused of regular assault, and assault apparently serious enough that two of the accusers were hospitalized). It's a shock though: interviews with his staff have said they wouldn't have been surprised at him being accused of something; anything but what he was actually accused of. So they're stunned and as confused as the rest of us.
For my part, I'm pretty sure I volunteered for the guy's campaign at one point (although in a "this would be useful for my resume" way), so I'ma need a long shower.