Andrew Kerr reports in the Washington Free Beacon:
Disbursements from Eric Swalwell’s campaign accounts corroborate the allegations leveled by a woman who says the former congressman sexually assaulted her in 2018, raising the prospect that Swalwell used campaign contributions to facilitate his alleged sexual misconduct.
Beverly Hills model Lonna Drewes filed a criminal complaint Tuesday alleging that she and Swalwell were supposed to go to a “political event” in 2018 when, instead, the then-congressman put a drug in her drink and took her to a hotel room in West Hollywood, where she says he raped her and choked her while she was incapacitated. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said the alleged incident “occurred in July of 2018 in a business in the 900 block of Hammond Street, in the City of West Hollywood.”
That description matches a pair of Swalwell campaign disbursements reported to the Federal Election Commission showing the congressman spent $361 in “travel expenses” at the Montrose West Hollywood, located at 900 Hammond Street, on July 18, 2018.
Paul Kamenar, an attorney with the National Legal and Policy Center, an ethics watchdog, told the Washington Free Beacon that the campaign payments could expose Swalwell to more legal headaches as the ex-congressman faces an ongoing criminal investigation. Kamenar noted that the records show Swalwell may have violated federal campaign laws by using campaign funds for recreational activity.
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