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Saturday, October 27, 2018

Avenatti accused of 'outright fraud' in new FBI referral

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley sent a new request Friday for the Justice Department to open a second investigation into Michael Avenatti, saying the anti-Trump lawyer lied to Congress through a second affidavit.

“Simply put, the sworn statement Mr. Avenatti provided the committee on October 2 appears to be an outright fraud,” Mr. Grassley wrote in asking the FBI to conduct a review.

Earlier this week Mr. Grassley asked the FBI to look at whether the lawyer and his client Julie Swetnick lied when they alleged Justice Brett Kavanaugh was complicit in gang rapes at high school parties in the 1980s.

Ms. Swetnick’s story changed, though, and her charges remain uncorroborated. Mr. Grassley says Mr. Avenattiappeared to be trying to obstruct the Senate’s confirmation process — a federal crime.

In an effort to back up Ms. Swetnick, Mr. Avenatti in early October submitted another affidavit — though he did not reveal to the committee who it was from.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Such slime. As my beloved dad would say "he needs to be taken down a peg or two!" What type of family life did he have to be so arragant and such a bully. Sad

Anonymous said...

and what is congress going to do about it??? congress is a toothless tiger with no testicals, they can`t, WON`T and never have done anything to people who lie to their commities.