{"id":193864,"date":"2026-04-12T01:23:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193864\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T01:23:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:23:36","slug":"manhattan-da-bragg-investigating-rep-eric-swalwell-for-sexual-assault-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/193864\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan DA Bragg investigating Rep. Eric Swalwell for sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK \u2014 Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has opened an investigation into a sexual assault allegation against California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, the Daily News has learned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The alleged assault occurred in a Manhattan hotel in 2024, as first reported by CNN. A former staffer of Swalwell said, after a night of drinking with him, she woke up to the heavily intoxicated rep having sex with her in his hotel bed, and that she refused him, telling him no, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI was pushing him off of me, saying no,\u201d the woman said. \u201cHe didn\u2019t stop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She said she was no longer working for Swalwell at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Manhattan DA office\u2019s confirmed to The News, when asked, that it\u2019s investigating the accusation \u2014 and that it\u2019s asking anyone with information about it to come forward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWe urge survivors and anyone with knowledge of these allegations to contact our Special Victims Division at (212) 335-9373. Our specially trained prosecutors, investigators and counselors are well-equipped to help you in a trauma-informed, survivor-centered manner,\u201d a <a href=\"https:\/\/manhattanda.org\/meet-alvin-bragg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Manhattan DA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Manhattan DA&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Manhattan DA<\/a> spokesperson said in a statement to the The News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Manhattan investigation comes amid Swalwell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2026\/04\/11\/rep-eric-swalwell-denies-sex-assault-allegations-amid-calls-to-end-california-gubernatorial-campaign\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:staunchly denying sexual misconduct allegations;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;staunchly denying sexual misconduct allegations&quot;}\" class=\"link \">staunchly denying sexual misconduct allegations<\/a> from four women \u2014 including the one in the Manhattan incident \u2014 and calls from some within his own party for him to end his campaign for California governor. Swalwell was among the leading candidates to replace outgoing Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is term-limited.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The other women accuse Swalwell of sending them unsolicited photos of his private parts and otherwise explicit messages or touching them inappropriately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThese allegations of sexual assault are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DW-a13lkjXx\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:flat false;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;flat false&quot;}\" class=\"link \">flat false<\/a>. They\u2019re absolutely false,\u201d Swalwell said in a video posted online late Friday. \u201cThey did not happen. They have never happened, and I will fight them with everything that I have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The congressman acknowledged past mistakes and admitted he\u2019s not \u201ca saint,\u201d but maintained any lapses in judgment of his are not only in the past but also private.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI have certainly made mistakes in judgment in my past,\u201d he said. \u201cBut 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,\u201d he told viewers, \u201cif, in any way, you have doubted your support for me. But I think you know who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK \u2014 Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has opened an investigation into a sexual assault allegation against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[77341,3015,11226,22680,75,547,84,83,9,24,63,3019,19696,77342],"class_list":{"0":"post-193864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-alleged-assault","9":"tag-alvin-bragg","10":"tag-california-governor","11":"tag-eric-swalwell","12":"tag-manhattan","13":"tag-manhattan-district-attorney","14":"tag-manhattan-headlines","15":"tag-manhattan-news","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-new-york-city","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-sexual-assault","20":"tag-the-daily-news","21":"tag-the-manhattan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193864","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=193864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}