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| © TOM WILLIAMS/AFP/Getty Images Dr. Christine Blasey Ford prepares to testify on September 27, 2018, during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Brett M. Kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, focusing on allegations of sexual assault by Kavanaugh against Christine Blasey Ford in the early 1980s. (Photo by Tom Williams / POOL / AFP) (Photo credit should read TOM WILLIAMS/AFP/Getty Images) |
By Melissa Quinn, Washington Examiner
Mark Judge, a former classmate of Brett Kavanaugh’s, will cooperate with law enforcement, including the FBI, if it “confidentially” investigates a sexual assault allegation lodged against Kavanaugh, he said Friday.
In a letter sent to the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge said he is “willing to cooperate with any law enforcement agency that is assigned to confidentially investigate these allegations.”
An FBI investigation into the allegation against Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford was raised by Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., as the Senate Judiciary Committee prepared to vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
After conferring with the panel’s Democrats, Flake called for a delay to the floor vote on Kavanaugh’s nomination so the FBI could conduct an investigation into Ford’s claim “limited in time and scope.”
The Senate Judiciary Committee then approved Kavanaugh’s nomination.
In his letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Judge also rejected a number of allegations raised in a sworn affidavit by Julie Swetnick this week. Swetnick claimed that she saw Kavanaugh and Judge “drink excessively and engage in highly inappropriate conduct.”
She also alleged that Judge, Kavanaugh and others spiked the punch at house parties in the Washington, D.C., area and facilitated efforts to allow girls to be gang raped.
In his letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee leaders, Judge said the allegations by Swetnick are “so bizarre that, even while suffering from addition, I would remember actions so outlandish.”
“I categorically deny them,” he wrote.
Judge also said he did not know Swetnick and denied a number of Swetnick’s allegations, including that he ever “engaged in the gang rape of any woman" and spiked punch to cause others to get drunk.
Judge has emerged as a key figure since Ford, a California professor, accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982.
Ford said Judge was in the room when Kavanaugh pinned her to the bed, groped her and tried to remove her clothing.
She offered emotional testimony Thursday during an extraordinary hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, during which she detailed the alleged incident involving Kavanaugh.
Kavanaugh, who also testified, has categorically denied the allegation and did so again before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Judge has denied in two other letters to the Senate Judiciary Committee having any recollection of the gathering described by Ford and said he never witnessed Kavanaugh behave in the manner Ford described.
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