Maryland police say they are not investigating any sexual-assault allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, despite a local-news report stating that “investigators” were on the case.
“I have spoken with my chief of detectives, and neither of us have any knowledge of anyone coming forward to us to report any allegations involving Judge Kavanaugh,” Montgomery County police chief J. Thomas Manger told the Washington Examiner.
The Montgomery County Sentinel said Monday that “investigators” are “looking at allegations against Kavanaugh during his senior year in high school after an anonymous witness came forward this weekend,” which “would potentially bring the number to four women accusing Kavanaugh of wrongdoing.”
A college classmate of Kavanaugh’s, Deborah Ramirez, leveled the second allegation of sexual misconduct against the nominee in a New Yorker piece on Sunday, accusing him of exposing himself to her at an alcohol-saturated party in college and forcing her to touch his penis.
The first allegation came from California psychology professor Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Kavanaugh of drunkenly attempting to rape her at a party when they were both in high school. Ford is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday.
Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, the adult-film star whose allegations of an affair with President Trump set off a prolonged legal battle, on Sunday shared a letter he wrote to Mike Davis, chief counsel for nominations for the Senate Judiciary Committee, teasing more allegations against Kavanaugh.
“We are aware of significant evidence of multiple house parties in the Washington, D.C. area during the early 1980s during which Brett Kavanaugh, Mark Judge and others would participate in the targeting of women with alcohol/drugs in order to allow a ‘train’ of men to subsequently gang rape them,” Avenatti wrote in the letter. He wrote on Twitter that he represents “a woman with credible information regarding Judge Kavanaugh.”