A former staffer for ex-Rep. Eric Swalwell, who says he raped her, is now cooperating with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.
“That former staff member of Eric Swalwell who had told our CNN team that she was sexually assaulted and raped by the congressman back in 2024 in Manhattan — now, that staffer is telling our colleagues that she is cooperating with the DA’s investigation,” a CNN correspondent reported Friday.
“That is significant because the District Attorney’s Office prosecutors can only move forward with investigations into sexual assault, you know, successfully for the most part, if the victim agrees to cooperate,” the correspondent continued.
DEVELOPING: A former Eric Swalwell staffer who accused the California Congressman of s*xually assaulting and r*ping her in a New York City hotel in April 2024 told CNN that she is now cooperating with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office investigation.
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— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) April 24, 2026
The unnamed former staffer previously said that Swalwell first raped her when she was working for him in September of 2019.
“[S]he said she woke up naked with him in a hotel room after a night of heavy drinking,” according to CNN. “She said she had no memory of what happened but could feel physically that they’d had sexual contact.”
He allegedly raped her again years later in 2024 after she’d stopped working for him and once again after a night of heavy drinking.
“I was pushing him off of me, saying no,” the woman told CNN. “He didn’t stop. He didn’t stop. I woke up the next morning naked, alone in his hotel. I, for a moment, didn’t even know that I was in his hotel room. That’s how intoxicated I was.”
CNN reportedly corroborated her allegations by speaking with her friends and family members.
Speaking separately with the San Francisco Chronicle, the woman said that the congressman began hitting on her within weeks of her accepting a job at his office, at a time when she was just 21 years old.
“Swalwell messaged her on Snapchat, she said, sending images of his genitals and seeking nude pictures of her in return,” the Chronicle notes.
He later tried to kiss her in the car while she was driving him home from a donor meeting.
“Driving him to another event weeks later, she said Swalwell pulled out his penis in the car and asked her to perform oral sex on him,” according to the Chronicle. “She said she did so in a parking lot.”
The woman also told the Chronicle that following the second rape in 2024, she texted a friend days later, admitting she’d been “sexually assaulted.”
She wrote that she had “blacked out” but “woke up once during it and even told him to stop at one point.”
“This happened one other time when I was working with him, but I convinced myself I was an equal party in it, even though same pattern: I blacked out and he had sex with me,” she wrote, referencing the 2019 rape.
The congressman has denied everything.
“These allegations are false and come on the eve of an election against the front-runner for governor,” he said in a statement prior to dropping out of the California gubernatorial election.
“For nearly 20 years, I have served the public – as a prosecutor and a congressman and have always protected women. I will defend myself with the facts and where necessary bring legal action. My focus in the coming days is to be with my wife and children and defend our decades of service against these lies,” he added.
In addition, Swalwell’s attorney has reportedly sent the woman a cease-and-desist letter saying she’d “made false statements accusing Mr. Swalwell of sexual assault and nonconsensual sexual encounters.”
The hypocrisy annoyed those who remembered the congressman’s treatment of the Kavanaugh debacle:
Eric Swalwell on Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged victims: “If he is innocent…I hope he says, ‘bring in all the victims, allow them to be heard, allow them to be questioned.’ That will clear his name.”
Today, Swalwell is sending cease and desist letters to alleged survivors of his… pic.twitter.com/gDg7lisC3R
— Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) April 10, 2026
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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