The Senate Judiciary Committee referred an individual who allegedly submitted a false allegation against Supreme Court Justice nominee Brett Kavanaugh to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department for criminal investigation. According to a letter sent by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) Saturday, the individual sent a sexual-assault allegation to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and later “recanted” his statement in a social media post. The individual claimed that “in August of 1985, Judge Kavanaugh sexually assaulted” someone he knew “on a boat in the harbor at Newport, Rhode Island.” Kavanaugh denied the allegation to committee staff on a phone call. The allegation was revealed to the public in released call transcripts earlier this week. The man later took back his allegation and apologized on social media. “Such acts are not only unfair; they are potentially illegal,” Grassley wrote in the letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and FBI Director Christopher Wray. “It is illegal to make materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements to Congressional investigators. It is illegal to obstruct Committee investigations.”
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