Brett Kavanaugh reportedly accused of sexual misconduct in letter flagged to FBI by Democrats
The claims, which come as the Senate prepares to vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination, were made in a letter obtained by a Democratic senator, who then alerted the FBI
Democrats on Thursday alerted the FBI to decades-old sexual misconduct allegations against US President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, according to reports and a person familiar with the matter.
The potentially damning claims, which come as the Senate prepares to vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination, were made in a letter obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Dianne Feinstein, a Democratic source told the New York Daily News.
Two officials briefed on the letter’s contents told The New York Times the allegations relate to possible sexual misconduct between Kavanaugh and an unidentified woman when they were both in high school.
The nature of the allegations was not immediately known. Feinstein informed her fellow committee Democrats about the letter on Wednesday evening, the sources said. Several of the Democrats advised her to contact the FBI.
The Democratic source said the letter was recently given to Representative Anna Eshoo, a California Democrat, who in turn handed it over to Feinstein.