Metropolitan Police Department of Washington, D.C., investigators are no longer looking into Tara Reade’s sexual assault complaint against Joe Biden, a spokesman for the agency told the Washington Examiner.
“This is an inactive case, and there are no additional details to provide,” a police spokesman said Wednesday, providing no further comment.
Reade told the Washington Examiner Wednesday she expected the department to close the case sooner but maintained that her allegation is true.
“I made a police report knowing I was outside the criminal statute of limitations,” Reade said. “I did this for safety and also to demonstrate I will cooperate with law enforcement of any investigation going forward or in the future, and go under oath if I need to about what happened.”
Reade has accused the former vice president and presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee of sexually assaulting her in a congressional hallway in 1993, when he was in the midst of a 36-year Senate career representing Delaware.
Earlier this month, Reade filed a formal complaint with the police department.
“This is an active, ongoing investigation, and there are no further details to provide at this time,” a Metropolitan Police Department spokesperson told the Washington Examiner at the time. “Cases that are handled by the Metropolitan Police Department’s Sexual Assault Unit go through a multi-review prior to being assigned a disposition. This case is progressing through the review process.”
Reade, 56, said that she filed the report out of concern for her own safety and to demonstrate that she is taking the allegation seriously and risking criminal penalty if the charge is false. The incident is past the district’s statute of limitations, and Reade told the Washington Examiner that she has no plans to sue Biden in civil court.
Reade said that she was assigned a victim’s advocate within the police department and connected to another one through an outside nonprofit group.
“They’re helping me mainly with safety planning,” she said.
