FEDS QUIZ YALE ACCUSER
She lists witnesses to Kav ‘incident’
The FBI interviewed Brett Kavanaugh accuser Deborah Ramirez on Sunday as part of its extended probe into the sex-assault allegations against the Supreme Court nominee, according to reports.
Ramirez spent several hours with FBI agents and repeated her claim that Kavanaugh exposed himself to her during a dorm party at Yale University about 35 years ago, CNN reported.
She also provided the names of people she says witnessed the incident.
Kavanaugh (inset) has vehemently denied the allegation, as well as others against him.
President Trump asked the FBI on Friday to open the probe and said a day later that the investigators would have “free rein.”
But White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said on Sunday that the investigation, capped at a week, wouldn’t be a “fishing expedition.”
And sources told CNN and NBC that the White House was directing the probe and has given the FBI the names of only four people to interview, at least for now.
The FBI will question only people the White House instructs it to speak with, ex-FBI Assistant Director Ron Hosko told CBS.
The probe will not investigate claims that Kavanaugh drank to the point of blacking out as a young man or his high-school yearbook entries that allegedly indicate crude attitudes toward women, CNN and NBC reported.
In addition to Ramirez, the FBI is slated to speak with Kavanaugh’s Georgetown Prep buddies Mark Judge and P.J. Smyth, as well as Leland Keyser, a friend of the judge’s first accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, the reports said.
Ford has said the three were at a high-school party where, she alleges, Kavanaugh attempted to rape her about 36 years ago. Judge was in the room where the attack occurred and watched, she testified.
All three have said they don’t remember the party, according to their lawyers. Keyser said she never met Kavanaugh but believes Ford’s accusations.
Ford and Kavanaugh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday. They may not be interviewed by the FBI because they already gave sworn testimony, sources told CNN.
That did not appear to sit well with Ford’s lawyer, Debra Katz.
“We have not heard from the FBI, despite repeated efforts to speak with them,’’ she told The New York Times on Sunday.
Another Kavanaugh accuser, Julie Swetnick, has not been contacted by the FBI, according to her lawyer, Michael Avenatti.
Swetnick claims Kavanaugh helped “spike” the “punch” at high-school parties where girls were gang-raped.
It was revealed on Sunday that Swetnick has been involved in a litany of legal disputes over the past 25 years, including a former employer accusing her of lying about her education and job history on an employment application.
Avenatti said the employer’s claim was “completely bogus, which is why it was dismissed almost immediately.”
Another accuser claimed Kavanaugh attacked a woman in the 1980s, but the man recanted the story, prompting Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to ask the FBI to probe him for criminal wrongdoing.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) sent a letter to White House counsel Don McGahn and FBI Director Chris Wray on Sunday demanding to know the full scope of the investigation.
“Given the seriousness of the allegations before the Senate, I am writing to request that you provide the Senate Judiciary Committee with a copy of the written directive sent by the White House to the FBI,” she wrote.
Trump called the Democrats’ protests a ploy.
“Just starting to hear the Democrats . . . are starting to put out the word that the ‘time’ and ‘scope’ of FBI looking into Judge Kavanaugh and witnesses is not enough. Hello!” he tweeted Sunday. “For them, it will never be enough — stay tuned and watch!”
But Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, told ABC’s “This Week,’’ “To limit the FBI as to the scope and who they’re going to question . . . that’s not the kind of investigation all of us are expecting the FBI to conduct.’’