Former classmates of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have sent their unsolicited statements to senators and the FBI after they were unable to speak with agents conducting the supplemental investigation into sexual assault allegations.
Kenneth Appold, who lived in the same suite as Kavanaugh at the time of the alleged incident involving Deborah Ramirez, said Kavanaugh was the student who exposed himself to Ramirez at a Yale party, the New Yorker reported.
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“I can corroborate Debbie’s account,” Appold said, even though he never spoke with Ramirez and did not witness the alleged incident, but only heard about it from people who said they were there.
“I believe her, because it matches the same story I heard thirty-five years ago, although the two of us have never talked,” Appold said.
Kavanaugh’s former Yale classmate reached out to the FBI last weekend. When he didn’t hear back, Appold submitted a statement through an FBI web portal.
Appold said several other former Yale classmates of Kavanaugh have reached out to the FBI but have not been contacted.
“No one who lived in Lawrance Hall (so far as I know) has been contacted by the FBI. What a charade,” Stephen Kantrowitz, a former Yale classmate, said in a text message, referring to the building where Kavanaugh lived freshman year and where the alleged incident took place.
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Two former Georgetown Preparatory School students who say they were acquaintances of Kavanaugh and spoke on condition of anonymity told the New Yorker they submitted sworn declarations to the FBI and senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The two said the nearest FBI field office told them it didn’t do “in-person interviews,” and they have not heard back on their statements.
One of the former classmates said the he recalled “on multiple occasions, Brett Kavanaugh counting on his fingers, how many kegs they had over the weekend.”
During the committee hearing last Thursday, Kavanaugh’s drinking habits during his teenage years were questioned.
He said that he would drink beer with his friends and sometimes had too much, but argued with senators that this shouldn’t disqualify him. He also said he never blacked out from drinking too much.
The FBI’s investigation into the allegations made by Christine Blasey Ford was concluded Wednesday night and the findings were passed on to the Senate.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., scheduled an initial, procedural vote for Kavanaugh’s confirmation Friday.
