{"id":263154,"date":"2026-04-11T22:52:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/263154\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T22:52:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T22:52:21","slug":"sex-assault-claims-against-california-governor-hopeful-eric-swalwell-under-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/263154\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex assault claims against California governor hopeful Eric Swalwell under investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Manhattan \u2060district attorney\u2019s office confirmed \u2060on Saturday that it \u2060is investigating sexual assault allegations against US congressman Eric Swalwell, a California Democrat and a leading candidate for governor of the state.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The San Francisco Chronicle on Friday reported \u200cthat a woman who previously worked in Swalwell\u2019s district office accused him of two nonconsensual sexual encounters, one while she was employed by him in 2019 and another in 2024 after she had left his staff.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">She told CNN that he raped \u2060her during the 2024 encounter in a New York hotel. Swalwell has \u200cdenied the accusations as \u201cabsolutely false\u201d and vowed to fight them, but several leading Democrats have urged him to \u200cend his bid for governor.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The woman, whom the Chronicle \u2060and CNN \u2060did not name, was quoted as saying she had been too intoxicated on both \u200coccasions to consent, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">CNN also reported that three other women accused Swalwell \u200cof sexual misconduct.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"California gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell speaks to voters at a town hall in Sacramento, California, on Tuesday. Photo: TNS\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2490360c-f7ce-47b8-85fb-01ef67e60d8a_a66cec46.jpg\" title=\"California gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell speaks to voters at a town hall in Sacramento, California, on Tuesday. Photo: TNS\"\/>California gubernatorial candidate Eric Swalwell speaks to voters at a town hall in Sacramento, California, on Tuesday. Photo: TNS<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The \u200cManhattan district attorney\u2019s office urged anyone with knowledge of the \u200callegations to contact its special victims division.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Manhattan \u2060district attorney\u2019s office confirmed \u2060on Saturday that it \u2060is investigating sexual assault allegations against US congressman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9984,5167,7,9,8,5177,24115,457,9172,32185,8669,4694,8209,12045,7701,1181,115519],"class_list":{"0":"post-263154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-adam-schiff","9":"tag-associated-press","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-california-headlines","12":"tag-california-news","13":"tag-cnn","14":"tag-eric-swalwell","15":"tag-gavin-newsom","16":"tag-house","17":"tag-manhattan","18":"tag-nancy-pelosi","19":"tag-new-york","20":"tag-san-francisco-chronicle","21":"tag-sexual-assault-allegations","22":"tag-sexual-misconduct","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-us-senator"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}