On Tuesday, former model and fashion software company owner Lonna Drewes claimed to reporters in a news conference that Swalwell raped her in a hotel in 2018, adding to others’ previous allegations of sexual misconduct by the Democratic politician.
After Drewes went public, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, in a statement to the media, said its Special Victims Bureau opened an investigation into a woman allegedly being sexually assaulted by Swalwell in July 2018 in West Hollywood.
Drewes’ allegations against Swalwell echo those from multiple women, including a case first reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, which involved an unnamed former staffer who accused him of sexual assault. CNN also reported on the case, as well as three other women who described separate instances of Swalwell’s alleged misconduct. TIME has not independently verified the allegations.
Sara Azari, representing Swalwell legally, said in a Tuesday statement that the “deeply offensive” accusations are a “calculated and transparent political hit job designed to destroy the reputation” of the Democratic politician, and she questioned the allegations’ timing, nature, and what she claimed to be a “coordinated rollout.”
Newsom on Tuesday announced a special election to fill Swalwell’s vacated seat for the state’s 14th congressional district on Aug. 18.
On the third encounter, Drewes claimed Swalwell spiked her glass of wine. Before a political event, Swalwell had allegedly invited her to his hotel room to retrieve documents, but the drink had by then left her “incapacitated.”
Drewes asserted that she did not consent and would not have consented to sexual activity with Swalwell and that the incident had impacted her mental health severely. She added that the delay in taking action was driven by “fear of his political power, his background as an attorney, and his family law enforcement ties.”
How Swalwell’s resignation ‘vindicated’ victims
CNN and CBS News have also spoken to another accuser, Annika Albrecht, who claimed to have met Swalwell in Washington D.C. while in college. Albrecht told CBS News that Swalwell offered to mentor her. She said Swalwell asked the students to create a group chat, and soon added her on Snapchat.
“It was very clear what the connotation was,” she told CBS News. “What I keep thinking back to is how lucky I am that I didn’t go to that hotel.”
Swalwell resigned amid threats of expulsion against him and Rep. Tony Gonzales (R, Texas), who was dogged by a separate controversy—an affair with his former staffer who later died by suicide. Gonzales also resigned Tuesday.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, Calif.), one of the Democratic Party’s most influential leaders, called Swalwell’s resignation move a “smart decision,” and she asserted that she knew nothing of the accusations before the reports came out. Pelosi, when she was Speaker, had elevated Swalwell to coveted House positions, and defended him in a previous, unrelated issue.
“I don’t think our work is done,” she said. “I think that a lot of the underlying structures that silence victims of sexual harassment and abuse still exist.”
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