{"id":263370,"date":"2026-04-12T02:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/263370\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T02:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T02:20:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-manhattan-da-investigates-alleged-sexual-assault-claim-against-california-rep-eric-swalwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/263370\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Manhattan Da Investigates Alleged Sexual Assault Claim Against California Rep Eric Swalwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The Manhattan District Attorney&#8217;s Office launched an investigation of a sexual assault claim made against California Representative and candidate for Governor Eric Swalwell.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Four women are accusing Swalwell of sexual assault and misconduct spanning back to 2019.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg is investigating an alleged incident that happened in New York back in 2024.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Swalwell is among the leading Democrats in the California governor&#8217;s race to replace Gavin Newsom. Many of his allies have since dropped their endorsements and want him to exit the race.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Swalwell took to <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DW-a13lkjXx\/?igsh=MXBjMDU5aDRyMmMzcw%3D%3D\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">social <\/a>media to address the allegations on Friday.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;I do not suggest to you in any way that I&#8217;m perfect or that I&#8217;m a saint. I have certainly made mistakes in judgment in my past, but those mistakes are between me and my wife, and to her I apologize deeply for putting her in this position. I also apologize to you if in any way you&#8217;ve doubted your support for me. But I think you know who I am,&#8221; he said in a post.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Swalwell has denied calls to exit the California governor&#8217;s race so far.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He planned on spending the weekend with his family and friends and will have an update &#8220;very soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Manhattan District Attorney&#8217;s Office launched an investigation of a sexual assault claim made against California Representative and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-263370","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263370","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=263370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}