A former girlfriend of key Kavanaugh defender Mark Judge has repeatedly requested the opportunity to speak with FBI investigators but received ‘no substantive reply’, according to her attorney.
Elizabeth Rasor, who dated the Supreme Court nominee’s high school best friend for three years during college, spoke out last week to challenge Judge’s claims that his and Brett Kavanaugh’s high school sex lives were innocent.
‘I cannot stand by and watch him lie’, she said. ‘Mark told me a very different story’.
According to Rasor, Judge had painted a much darker picture of the best friends’ high school years than the one Kavanaugh has been peddling over the course of the last two weeks.
Now that the FBI has reopened its background check to investigate sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh, Rasor wants the chance to share her account.
Her attorney Roberta Kaplan told the New Yorker that Rasor ‘has repeatedly made clear to the Senate Judiciary Committee and to the FBI that she would like the opportunity to speak to them’.
As of Sunday, however, Kaplan said: ‘We’ve received no substantive response.’
The former girlfriend of key Kavanaugh defender Mark Judge has repeatedly requested the opportunity to speak with FBI investigators regarding the Supreme Court nominee’s credibility
Rasor offered to share her information regarding Kavanaugh and his friendship with Judge last week, but as of Sunday has not been contacted by the FBI, according to her attorney
Rasor last week told the New Yorker that Judge had described to her an incident that involved him and other boys taking turns having sex with a drunk woman when they were in high school.
While she did not know whether Kavanaugh was one of the boys involved, Rasor said she felt obligated to share the account because it could cast serious doubt on what both Judge and Kavanaugh have said about their time at Georgetown Prep.
Kaplan said her client ‘feels a sense of civic duty to tell what she knows’, but that as of Sunday ‘the only response we’ve gotten are e-mails saying that our e-mails have been “received”‘.
She added that at one point an FBI official suggested she try to contact the agency’s tip line.
Should Rasor be granted the opportunity to interview with FBI investigators, her account could help corroborate Christine Blasey Ford’s story about being assaulted by Kavanaugh during a high school party in 1982.
Ford claims that Judge was in the room during the alleged attack, but he has denied any recollection of it.
Should Rasor be granted the opportunity to interview with FBI investigators, her account could help corroborate Christine Blasey Ford’s sexual assault claims
Rasor is reportedly one of several witnesses who have contacted FBI investigators to share information about Kavanaugh’s conduct during high school and college ahead of the agency’s Friday deadline.
Another witness identified by the New Yorker report published Sunday is a Yale classmate who wishes to corroborate the account of Kavanaugh’s second accuser, Deborah Ramirez.
Ramirez alleges that Kavanaugh exposed his penis to her at a drunken party in a Yale dormitory.
The unnamed witness said he is certain he heard about the alleged incident shortly after it occurred, and that he has spoken with several other classmates who would also like to provide information supporting Ramirez’s story.
However, he said that when he tried to get in contact with the FBI, he was passed around to multiple different offices so many times that he ultimately just submitted his tip through the bureau’s online portal.
As of Monday, the FBI is believed to still be limiting its list of interviewees to four people, all of whom were approved by the White House.
Those witnesses are Judge and another high school friend of Kavanaugh’s, P. J. Smyth, as well as Ford’s high school friend Leland Keyser and the second accuser Ramirez.
Judge’s attorney confirmed that he was being questioned on Monday.
The 53-year-old self-described recovering alcoholic had initially written a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee simply saying he had no recollection of any incident like the one described by Christine Ford.
Judge had previously claimed he could not testify in Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings because of depression and anxiety.
Then on Friday, he said he would ‘cooperate with any law enforcement agency that is assigned to confidentially investigate these allegations,’ and signed the statement under penalty of felony.
Lying to the FBI is a crime, meaning Judge’s testimony to them could see him jailed if it is found to be a lie.