House Ethics panel opens investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against Rep. Eric Swalwell

WASHINGTON -- The House Ethics Committee has begun an probe into whether Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., engaged successful intersexual misconduct toward an worker moving nether his supervision, the sheet announced Monday.

The announcement comes 1 time aft Swalwell suspended his run for California politician aft the emergence of allegations that helium continues to deny.

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Democrats rapidly abandoned enactment for Swalwell aft allegations that helium sexually assaulted a pistillate twice, including erstwhile she worked for him. The reports published successful the San Francisco Chronicle and aboriginal by CNN came arsenic Swalwell began to look arsenic a starring contender successful the crowded race.

"I volition combat the serious, mendacious allegations that person been made - but that's my fight, not a campaign's," Swalwell said successful a societal media post.

The Ethics Committee said the specified information that it is investigating these allegations, and publically disclosing its review, does not itself bespeak that immoderate usurpation has occurred.

The video successful the media subordinate supra is from a erstwhile report.