In a bizarre twist, lawyer Peter Gleason was approached over five years ago by two women claiming Schneiderman had harassed them. Gleason strangely advised them not to report the abuse to the Manhattan DA, but instead talk to Rupert Murdoch shill and hard-drinking NY Post reporter Steve Dunleavy, who had officially retired all the way back in 2008. Dunleavy then, for some reason, then decided to speak to Donald Trump about the matter and Gleason soon received a call from Michael Cohen.
At this point, it is unclear where the story goes from there. But Cohen clearly took it somewhere because Gleason has filed a motion to seal any information about these women and their claims that were uncovered in the raid on Cohen. That implies that Cohen provided further services for these women. Whether that was some sort of National Enquirer "pay-to-kill" scheme or a direct settlement with Schneiderman remains to be seen.
The timing of this information about the harassment was most propitious for Trump as Schneiderman was spearheading the Trump University case against Trump beginning in 2012. Schneiderman eventually settled that case for $25 million shortly after Trump was elected. Trump's prior knowledge of the harassment may make the fact that the Schneiderman story came out shortly after the Cohen raid, which Trump clearly thinks crossed a red line, much less of a coincidence than we might have initially thought.
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