Sen. Chuck Grassley asked the FBI for an update on his criminal investigation referrals of women who falsely claimed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted them.
Kavanaugh was accused by a number of women in 2018 during a heated confirmation battle of assault, but all of the women later recanted their claims or weren't able to provide evidence backing them up.
Grassley referred several recanters, including Julie Swetnick and Judy Munro-Leighton, to the FBI, in 2018.
An investigation into Swetnick's bombastic claims concluded that statements she and her lawyer, Michael Avenatti, submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee "Likely contained materially false claims," Grassley said.
The original referrals went unanswered, and so has a follow-up letter sent in 2019, Grassley told Attorney General Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray, who has been the FBI director since 2017, in a new letter.
"It is the Senate's responsibility to weigh the information that it collects from the background investigations and from its own investigative work and make a fully informed decision. That's what happened here. In the end, the Senate weighed evidence assembled by the FBI and by veteran congressional investigators and fulfilled its Constitutional responsibility by confirming Judge Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court," he added.
Grassley urged the FBI and Department of Justice to respond no later than April 6.
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Grassley Demands Update From Feds on Women That Falsely Accused Brett Kavanaugh
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