Tainted lawman hires lawyer
A SMIRKING Eric Schneiderman spent his first day of unemployment ignoring media queries and looking for answers from a new defense lawyer.
The disgraced ex-state attorney general popped out of his Upper West Side apartment briefly Wednesday, climbing into a waiting black Lincoln Navigator and zipping off.
A few hours later, top criminal defense attorney Isabelle Kirshner confirmed that she is representing Schneiderman — who faces criminal probes by a special prosecutor and the Suffolk County district attorney.
The NYPD has said investigators will sit down with the women who detailed the physical abuse inflicted by Schneiderman in a bombshell magazine story as a case is built against the former prosecutor.
Schneiderman emerged mutely from his apartment building, saying not a word about the vile charges against him. “Thank you,” the 63-year-old attorney instead told the media horde assembled outside his home, offering no further comment. “Thank you, have a nice day.”
Schneiderman, dressed in a blue sports coat and light-colored pants, climbed into the back seat as photographers snapped away.
The lawyer resigned his state job Monday night after an expose in The New Yorker accused him of choking, slapping and verbally denigrating the alleged victims.
The story also portrayed Schneiderman as a drunken and abusive man who demeaned his lovers as “whores.”
According to sources, Schneiderman never addressed his staff after his stunning resignation. He skipped out on his last day of work, offering no further comment after submitting his resignation letter.
His new lawyer, Kirshner, (photo, below) worked as a prosecutor in the Manhattan district attorney’s office for four years before moving into criminal defense in 1986.
Over her long career, Kirshner’s clients included defendants facing charges from drug trafficking to money laundering to violent crimes.
Schneiderman’s Manhattan cameo came shortly before Gov. Cuomo defended his decision to name a special prosecutor in the Schneiderman probe — wresting the case from Manhattan District Attorney Cy