A woman says she made false statements about Kavanaugh, she has now been sent back to the FBI

A woman who admitted to falsely raping Justice Brett Kavanaugh of the Supreme Court was referred to the FBI and the Ministry of Justice for investigation.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley said Friday in a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray and Attorney General Jeff Sessions that the woman, Judy Munro-Leighton, admitted Thursday that she had falsely declared an email to committee staff that Kavanaugh and a friend had raped her.

In the email, Munro-Leighton claimed to be the author of an anonymous letter sent to Democratic Senator of California, Kamala Harris, on September 19. In this letter, a person who signed the letter under the name "Jane Doe" claimed that Kavanaugh and his friend had been raped. she at the back of a car.

Grassley, a Republican from Iowa, said the investigators had quickly discovered that Munro-Leighton was a "leftist activist" several decades older than Kavanaugh. (RELATED: Grassley returns Avenatti, Swetnick to FBI for investigation)

But after arriving at Munro-Leighton on Thursday, she admitted "she was not sexually assaulted by Judge Kavanaugh and was not the author of the original letter" Jane Doe "."

Munro-Leighton said she "just wanted to attract attention" for her "stratagem".

"In summary, during the committee's very close investigation into the charges against Judge Kavanaugh, Munro-Leighton presented a fabricated allegation that was diverting the committee's resources," said Grassley.

Grassley asked Wray and Sessions to investigate Munro-Leighton for making false statements and material obstruction.

The criminal referral is the fourth by Grassley during the Kavanaugh confirmation process.

Kavanaugh was confirmed in the Supreme Court on October 6. Three women have come out publicly to accuse the Conservative judge of sexual misconduct in high school and at university. Kavanaugh denied all the allegations.

Grassley has submitted FBI recommendations on one of those Kavanaugh accusers, Julie Swetnick, and his lawyer, Michael Avenatti. In her statement of September 26, Swetnick claimed to have witnessed Kavanaugh's girls drinking at parties in the 1980s. She also testified that Kavanaugh was present at parties where girls were raped by gangs. .

Grassley also referred a man who had stated in a letter to Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island that he had witnessed a woman's rape by Kavanaugh in the 1980s.

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