洛杉矶县地方检察官办公室性犯罪部门正在考虑是否对前众议员埃里克·斯沃尔韦尔案提起诉讼，一位发言人周四对NBC新闻表示。根据该发言人的说法，县治安官办公室受害者部门曾调查此案，并于9月21日将其移交给检察官。斯沃尔韦尔是民主党人，他在4月份辞去了国会议员职务，并在多起性侵犯和不当行为指控浮出水面后退出了加州州长竞选，他否认了这些指控。
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office sex crimes unit is weighing whether to bring charges in a case involving former Rep. Eric Swalwell, a spokesperson told NBC News on Thursday. The county sheriff’s victims’ unit investigated the case, which was then forwarded to prosecutors on Sept. 21, according to the spokesperson. Swalwell, a Democrat, resigned from Congress in April and dropped out of the California governor’s race after multiple sexual assault and misconduct allegations, which he denies.
前模特、时尚软件公司老板洛娜·德鲁斯于4月在洛杉矶与她的律师一起举行新闻发布会，指控斯沃尔韦尔给她下药、性侵并掐她的脖子。洛杉矶当局当时证实，他们已就这些指控展开刑事调查。斯沃尔韦尔的律师周四在一封电子邮件中表示，他“清白无辜”，并补充说：“这些指控是假的，事实将证明这一点。”该律师萨拉·阿扎里说：“向洛杉矶县地方检察官办公室的所谓移交是一个标准的程序步骤。这不是起诉决定。这不是对不当行为的认定。这不会改变事实。”
Former model and fashion software company owner Lonna Drewes held a news conference in April with her attorneys in Los Angeles, accusing Swalwell of drugging, sexually assaulting and choking her. Los Angeles authorities confirmed at the time that they had launched a criminal investigation into the allegations. An attorney for Swalwell said in an email Thursday that he is “innocent,” adding that “these allegations are false, and the facts will bear that out.”“The reported referral to the Los Angeles County District Attorney is a standard procedural step. It is not a charging decision. It is not a finding of wrongdoing. It changes nothing about the facts,” said the attorney, Sara Azari.
她说：“我们欢迎公平、独立的审查，我们有信心这将为他洗清冤屈。”根据一位熟悉此事的官员的说法，FBI在8月搜查了斯沃尔韦尔位于华盛顿特区的住所，并扣押了一部电子设备，此次行动当时被描述为与涉及性不当行为指控的调查有关。同月，FBI特工在执行搜查令时在旧金山机场拦下了斯沃尔韦尔，并没收了他的电子设备。
“We welcome a fair, independent review, and we are confident it will vindicate him.”The FBI searched Swalwell’s Washington, D.C., home in August and seized an electronic device in connection with an investigation that was described as involving sexual misconduct allegations at the time, according to an official familiar with the matter. The same month, FBI agents executing a search warrant stopped Swalwell at the San Francisco airport and took his electronic devices.
NBC新闻获得的一份搜查令副本显示，调查人员扣押了一部iPhone和一台MacBook Pro电脑。这些指控首次在《旧金山纪事报》的一篇文章中被公开，文章中一名前斯沃尔韦尔助理称他曾两次性侵她。
A copy of the search warrant obtained by NBC News detailed that investigators seized an iPhone and a MacBook Pro computer. The allegations first came to light in a San Francisco Chronicle article in which a former Swalwell aide said he had sexually assaulted her twice.
一位熟悉该女子陈述的消息人士向NBC新闻证实，《纪事报》的报道准确无误。该报道之后，CNN也发表了一篇报道，四名女子（包括一名其陈述与《纪事报》文章相符的女子）对其提出性不端行为指控。其中三人之一的Ally Sammarco表示，Swalwell曾向她发送未经请求的阴茎照片；Sammarco随后接受了NBC新闻的采访，并确认她在CNN文章中的陈述准确无误。
A source familiar with the woman’s account confirmed to NBC News that the Chronicle’s reporting was accurate. The article was followed by a CNN report in which four women, including one whose story matched the Chronicle article, made sexual misconduct allegations against him. One of the three others, Ally Sammarco, said Swalwell sent her unsolicited photos of his penis; Sammarco later spoke to NBC News and confirmed the accuracy of her account in the CNN article.
Swalwell在4月10日的社交媒体视频中否认了《纪事报》和CNN所发表的指控，称：“这些性侵犯指控纯属假话。” “这些事情从未发生。我将用我所拥有的一切来与之斗争。” Swalwell曾在国会任职13年。他辞职后，6月举行了一场特别选举以填补其空缺的席位；民主党人Aisha Wahab赢得了该选举，以完成他剩余的任期。
Swalwell denied the accusations published by the Chronicle and CNN in a video on social media on April 10, saying, “These allegations of sexual assault are flat false.”“They did not happen. They have never happened. And I will fight them with everything I have,” he said. Swalwell served in Congress for 13 years. A special election was held in June to fill the seat he vacated upon resignation; Democrat Aisha Wahab won the race to fill out the rest of his term.
11月举行的完整两年任期选举将是Wahab与 fellow Democrat Melissa Hernandez之间的再次对决。
The election in November for a full two-year term will be a rematch between Wahab and fellow Democrat Melissa Hernandez.