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\nFBI agents investigating US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have contacted the second woman to accuse him of sexual misconduct, her attorney said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The announcement by Deborah Ramirez\u2019s lawyer John Clune indicates that the FBI probe of Kavanaugh will look beyond separate allegations of attempted rape leveled against the conservative federal appeals court judge by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford at a dramatic Senate hearing this week.<\/p>\n
Ramirez alleges that Kavanaugh exposed his penis to her during a drunken party at a Yale University dormitory when they were undergraduates. Kavanaugh denies both Ford\u2019s and Ramirez\u2019s allegations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can confirm the FBI has reached out to interview Ms. Ramirez and she has agreed to cooperate with their investigation,\u201d Clune said in a tweet.<\/p>\n
\u201cOut of respect for the integrity of the process, we will have no further comment at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump bowed to pressure from moderate Senate Republicans and ordered the FBI investigation after Thursday\u2019s Senate hearing, during which Ford, a California university professor, detailed her claims that Kavanaugh tried to rape her at a party in 1982 when the two were still high school teenagers.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, NBC News reported that the White House had constrained the FBI investigation by limiting its parameters.<\/p>\n
Trump denied that story, tweeting that \u201cActually, I want them to interview whoever they deem appropriate, at their discretion.\u201d White House spokesman Raj Shah said the Senate had set the \u201cscope and duration\u201d of the FBI probe, which is supposed to be wrapped up in a week. \u201cThe White House is letting the FBI agents do what they are trained to do,\u201d Shah said.<\/p>\n
Michael Avenatti, the attorney for a third Kavanaugh accuser, Julie Swetnick, said in an email to Reuters that his client has not been contacted by investigators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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