New York AG Eric Schneiderman announced his resignation, hours after The New Yorker magazine published allegations of physical abuse.
He was accused in the report by Ronan Farrow -- of hitting and choking women without their consent, asking to use a woman's prescription Xanax, and mocking anti-gun demonstrators, as "losers."
According to the article, Manning Barish said Schneiderman "would be 'shaking me and grabbing my face' while demanding that she repeat such things as 'I'm a little wh---.'" On another occasion, Manning Barish says that he told her "If you ever left me, I'd kill you." Schneiderman, a critic of President Trump, has cast himself as a supporter of the #MeToo movement.
This is serious because it is recent, the accused is the top law enforcement for a long time.