New York Post

Eric 'vics' told: Don't go to DA Cy

Lawyer: I steered two gals to Trump ‘fixer’

- By KAJA WHITEHOUSE and RUTH BROWN Additional reporting by Emily Saul

A lawyer claims he knew about Eric Schneiderm­an’s dirty deeds five years ago when two women came to him with allegation­s against the state attorney general.

But Peter Gleason discourage­d them from going to the Manhattan district attorney — and instead took their case to Schneiderm­an foe Donald Trump and his “fixer” Michael Cohen, he revealed Friday.

Gleason — an eccentric ex-cop best known for representi­ng “Soccer Mom Madam” Anna Gristina — says the two women individual­ly came to him in 2012 and 2013 claiming Schneiderm­an (above) had been “sexually inappropri­ate” with them.

He says he told them DA Cy Vance Jr. would likely ignore their cases, citing “incestuous political corruption” in the Democratic Party.

“I explained to these women you cannot go to the Manhattan DA’s Office, nothing will happen,” Gleason told The Post.

Instead, he took the matter to pal and ex-Post columnist Steve Dunleavy, who said he’d bring it up with Trump.

At the time, Schneiderm­an was suing the future president’s failed Trump University — and Trump was flirting with the idea of running for governor of New York.

Dunleavy, who wasn’t working for The Post at the time, said Friday that he remembers Gleason telling him about the women — but claims he never spoke to Trump about it.

But Gleason says Trump got the message one way or another, because Cohen called him the next day to discuss the cases.

“I thought it would’ve been good because if Trump had followed through with his pledge to run for governor, then he’d be a sympa- thetic ear,” Gleason says.

Shortly after their conversati­on, Trump tweeted: “Weiner is gone, Spitzer is gone – next will be lightweigh­t A.G. Eric Schneiderm­an. Is he a crook? Wait and see, worse than Spitzer or Weiner,” referring to disgraced state politician­s Eliot Spitzer and Anthony Weiner.

But Trump didn’t run for governor, and Schneiderm­an stayed in office until this week, when four women accused him of sexual battery in The New Yorker — two of whom were in relationsh­ips with him after 2013.

Gleason told The New York Times that neither of his clients was involved in the New Yorker article.

Asked why he and his clients didn’t pursue other avenues like a civil suit, Gleason replied, “It’s always the choice of the client.”

But he claims he did warn top elected officials about Schneider- man’s behavior for years.

“It was an open secret,” Gleason said. “I spoke to many people at a variety of events and some were elected officials.”

He refused to say which elected officials, but did say he warned Manhattan politico Jeanne Wilcke not to be alone with Schneiderm­an — which she confirmed.

“He told me to be careful, to not be in a room alone with him,” Wilcke said.

News of Gleason’s clients emerged Friday when he wrote to the judge overseeing a review of the documents seized in raids on Cohen to request she seal any that relate to the Schneiderm­an accusers.

Vance’s office declined to comment.

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