I guess they just expect the rock throwers to be treated with loving kindness.
Good grief, so many stupid people in this country.
November 2, 2018
VIA ELECTRONIC TRANSMISSION
The Honorable Jeff Sessions The Honorable Christopher A. Wray
Attorney General Director
U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation
950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530 Washington, DC 20535
Dear Attorney General Sessions and Director Wray:
I am once again writing regarding fabricated allegations the United States Senate
Committee on the Judiciary recently received. As you know, the Senate Judiciary Committee
processed the nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to serve as an Associate Justice on the
Supreme Court of the United States, leading to his eventual confirmation on October 6, 2018. As
part of that process, the Committee has investigated various allegations made against Judge
Kavanaugh. The Committee’s investigation has involved communicating with numerous
individuals claiming to have relevant information. While many of those individuals have provided
the Committee information in good faith, it unfortunately appears some have not. As explained
below, I am writing to refer Ms. Judy Munro-Leighton for investigation of potential violations of
18 U.S.C. §§ 1001 (materially false statements) and 1505 (obstruction), for materially false
statements she made to the Committee during the course of the Committee’s investigation.
On September 25, 2018, staffers for Senator Harris, a Committee member, referred an
undated handwritten letter to Committee investigators that her California office had received
signed under the alias “Jane Doe” from Oceanside, California.1
The letter contained highly graphic
sexual-assault accusations against Judge Kavanaugh. The anonymous accuser alleged that Justice
Kavanaugh and a friend had raped her “several times each” in the backseat of a car. In addition to
being from an anonymous accuser, the letter listed no return address, failed to provide any
timeframe, and failed to provide any location — beyond an automobile — in which these alleged
incidents took place.
Regardless, Committee staff quickly began investigating the claims as part of the broader
investigation, hindered by the limited information provided. On September 26, 2018, Committee
staff questioned Judge Kavanaugh about these allegations in a transcribed interview conducted
1 See Undated Letter from “Jane Doe” to Senator Harris, enclosed below.
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under penalty of felony.2
They read him the letter in full as part of the questioning.3
In response
to the anonymous allegations, Judge Kavanaugh unequivocally stated: “[T]he whole thing is
ridiculous. Nothing ever — anything like that, nothing . . . . [T]he whole thing is just a crock, farce,
wrong, didn’t happen, not anything close.”4
Later that day, September 26th, the Committee
publicly released the transcript of that interview with Judge Kavanaugh, which included the full
text of the Jane Doe letter.5
Then, on October 3, 2018, Committee staff received an email from a Ms. Judy Munro-
Leighton with a subject line claiming: “I am Jane Doe from Oceanside CA — Kavanaugh raped
me.”6
Ms. Munro-Leighton wrote that she was “sharing with you the story of the night that Brett
Kavanaugh and his friend sexually assaulted and raped me in his car” and referred to “the letter
that I sent to Sen. Kamala Harris on Sept. 19 with details of this vicious assault.” She continued: “I
know that [‘]Jane Doe[’] will get no media attention, but I am deathly afraid of revealing any
information about myself or my family.” She then included a typed version of the Jane Doe letter.
Committee investigators began investigating Ms. Munro-Leighton’s allegations. Given her
relatively unique name, Committee investigators were able to use open-source research to locate
Ms. Munro-Leighton and determine that she: (1) is a left-wing activist; (2) is decades older than
Judge Kavanaugh; and (3) lives in neither the Washington DC area nor California, but in Kentucky.
In order to investigate her sexual-assault claims, Committee investigators first attempted to reach
her by phone on October 3, 2018, but were unsuccessful. On October 29, Committee investigators
again attempted contact, leaving a voicemail. In response, Ms. Munro-Leighton left Committee
investigators a voicemail on November 1, 2018.
Eventually, on November 1, 2018, Committee investigators connected with Ms. Munro-
Leighton by phone and spoke with her about the sexual-assault allegations against Judge
Kavanaugh she had made to the Committee. Under questioning by Committee investigators, Ms.
Munro-Leighton admitted, contrary to her prior claims, that she had not been sexually assaulted
by Judge Kavanaugh and was not the author of the original “Jane Doe” letter. When directly asked
by Committee investigators if she was, as she had claimed, the “Jane Doe” from Oceanside
California who had sent the letter to Senator Harris, she admitted: “No, no, no. I did that as a way
to grab attention. I am not Jane Doe . . . but I did read Jane Doe’s letter. I read the transcript of
the call to your Committee. . . . I saw it online. It was news.”
She further confessed to Committee investigators that (1) she “just wanted to get attention”;
(2) “it was a tactic”; and (3) “that was just a ploy.” She told Committee investigators that she had
called Congress multiple times during the Kavanaugh hearing process – including prior to the time
Dr. Ford’s allegations surfaced – to oppose his nomination. Regarding the false sexual-assault
2
Senate Judiciary Committee Interview with Judge Kavanaugh 5-10 (Sept, 26, 2018). Available at:
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/09.26.18%20BMK%20Interview%20Transcript%20(Redacted).pd
f.
3 Id. 4 Id. 5
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/judiciary-committee-releases-transcripts-of-kavanaugh-
interviews
6
Email from Judy Munro-Leighton to Senate Judiciary Committee (Oct. 3, 2018), enclosed below.