{"id":193694,"date":"2026-04-11T21:16:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193694\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T21:16:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T21:16:40","slug":"manhattan-da-investigating-swalwell-after-sex-assault-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193694\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan DA investigating Swalwell after sex assault claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rep. Eric Swalwell speaks at a news conference at the U.S. Capitol Building last year in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

Anna Moneymaker<\/p>\n

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The Manhattan District Attorney\u2019s Office is launching an investigation into accusations Rep. Eric Swalwell, a candidate for California governor, sexually assaulted a woman in 2019 and 2024, the office confirmed Saturday.<\/p>\n

The investigation, which was first reported by CNN<\/a>, follows accusations published by that outlet<\/a> and the San Francisco Chronicle that Swalwell sexually assaulted the woman while she worked for him in 2019 and five years later; in both cases, she said she was too intoxicated to consent.<\/p>\n

Swalwell said Friday the accusations are \u201cabsolutely false\u201d<\/a> in a video posted to social media.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear what will be the focus of the Manhattan DA\u2019s investigation. The office is headed by Alvin Bragg, a Democrat.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe urge survivors and anyone with knowledge of these allegations to contact our Special Victims Division at 212-335-9373,\u201d Bragg\u2019s office said in a statement. \u201cOur specially trained prosecutors, investigators and counselors are well-equipped to help you in a trauma-informed, survivor-centered manner.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swalwell\u2019s campaign spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Swalwell has faced widespread calls from top Democrats to quit the race, including from Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi and his former campaign co-chairs, Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Los Angeles and Rep. Adam Gray, D-Merced.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, two major labor unions that had backed Swalwell, the SEIU California and Labor Federation of California, formally rescinded their endorsements. SEIU California in a statement also urged Swalwell to drop out of the governor\u2019s race.<\/p>\n

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Ben Paviour is the California political power reporter for The Sacramento Bee\u2019s Capitol Bureau. He previously covered Virginia state politics for public radio and was a local investigations fellow at The New York Times. He got his start in journalism at the Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. Before becoming a reporter, he worked in local government and tech in the Bay Area.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rep. Eric Swalwell speaks at a news conference at the U.S. Capitol Building last year in Washington, DC.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-193694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}