State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman — New York’s highest-ranking law-enforcement official — snorted cocaine in the back room of a bar while he was a state senator, a political activist claims.
While Schneiderman, 59, has admitted to using pot and coke as a youth, he’s denied ingesting any illegal drugs for years, including since 1998, when he became a lawmaker.
“I saw him, Schneiderman, put it up his nose, a white powder’’ in 2005, insisted Democratic activist and comic Randy Credico.
Credico, who worked with fellow Democrat Schneiderman and others including hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons in the mid-2000s to successfully reform the Rockefeller Drug Laws, said Schneiderman snorted cocaine at Siberia, a since-closed Manhattan nightclub, during a party for politicians and their supporters.
“Schneiderman was there, and everybody was using like a bump or two bumps of cocaine . . . We were all snorting there, everyone was in the back room using white powder,’’ contended Credico, who received more than 20,000 votes as a long-shot candidate in the Democratic primary for governor last month.
There were about a dozen people in the room, Credico added.
He said he was so close to Schneiderman at the time that he emceed the AG’s 50th birthday party.
Still, Credico — who describes the scene at length in the manuscript of a book he hopes to have published — said he can’t remember who else was in the Siberia back room besides himself and Schneiderman, who in 2011 became attorney general.
Credico, who has called himself “the only politician in America who smokes pot and will admit it,’’ repeatedly tweeted in recent weeks about Schneiderman having used illegal drugs, posting items such as, “Ex cokehead pal @AGSchneiderman.’’
Credico said he decided to bring to light the alleged Siberia incident after seeing a recent Schneiderman re-election campaign ad in which the AG takes credit for “breaking up statewide drug-trafficking rings.”
“The AG is going after Mickey Mouse drug offenders . . . when he was once totally opposed to the drug laws,’’ Credico said of Schneiderman.
Peter Adjemian, a spokesman for Schneiderman, called the allegation “categorically false.”
“The attorney general and Mr. Credico crossed paths a number of times during 2005, when they were both supporting [Manhattan] District Attorney [Robert] Morgenthau’s re-election campaign, and Mr. Credico performed stand-up comedy at the attorney general’s 50th birthday party,’’ the rep said.
“But what’s truly laughable — and absolutely, unequivocally false — is the notion that these two individuals ever did drugs together.’’