WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI is dramatically widening the scope of its investigation into Brett Kavanaugh thanks to new information provided by Christine Blasey Ford, the Associated Press has learned.
Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh of attempted sexual assault decades ago when both were teens, has added new details to her previously incomplete account. While she cannot provide a year or a location, Ford has told investigators she is confident the attack, which left her fearing for her life, "probably occurred in a bedroom" in Bethesda, Maryland, no later than 1983.
Armed with that information, the FBI on Friday night started the process of filing for search warrants in all homes known to exist in the Washington bedroom community before 1985. Data was provided by assessor records.
"We're drawing in our forensic teams from all over the country," FBI spokesman Don Feinstein said. "If this Kavanaugh fellow left a clue, we'll find it. Hell, even if he didn't, we're going to nail his butt."
Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh of attempted sexual assault decades ago when both were teens, has added new details to her previously incomplete account. While she cannot provide a year or a location, Ford has told investigators she is confident the attack, which left her fearing for her life, "probably occurred in a bedroom" in Bethesda, Maryland, no later than 1983.
Armed with that information, the FBI on Friday night started the process of filing for search warrants in all homes known to exist in the Washington bedroom community before 1985. Data was provided by assessor records.
"We're drawing in our forensic teams from all over the country," FBI spokesman Don Feinstein said. "If this Kavanaugh fellow left a clue, we'll find it. Hell, even if he didn't, we're going to nail his butt."