Allegations Against Eric Swalwell Include Use of Campaign Funds for Hotel Stay in Alleged Rape Incident

U.S. congressman, has been accused by four women of sexual misconduct. One allegation involves an alleged rape of a former staffer at a hotel in New York on April 25, 2024. The accuser, who was 25 at the time, stated she became too intoxicated to remember leaving a bar and awoke in Swalwell's hotel room bed with him having sex with her, and allegedly not heeding her protestations, including attempts to push him off her.

The campaign shelled out two separate payments of $1,095.52 each on February 26, 2024, for rooms at the Times Square Edition hotel. The hotel is located near the Ziegfeld Ballroom, site of a gala for the Brady Campaign that Swalwell and the accuser attended. The payments were recorded as reimbursements, which can occur after the actual stay date due to travel scheduling.

When she woke up, she told the outlet she had vaginal bleeding and bruising on her body from the alleged encounter. The former staffer, who was not working for Swalwell at the time, told the San Francisco Chronicle that the alleged rape happened at the Times Square Edition.

His campaign racked up a whopping $14,476.11 in charges for rooms and incidentals at the hotel between January 2023 and February 2024, the data shows.

allegation dates to July 2018 at the Montrose West Hollywood hotel, where Swalwell allegedly raped a former model.

Taxpayer funds covered that stay, according to filings. Swalwell's campaign spending faces scrutiny, including allegedly violating immigration and employment law to keep his Brazilian illegal immigrant nanny in the country and paying her under the table, according to a pair of recently filed complaints.

Swalwell, a married father of three, has denied all allegations. He resigned his congressional seat and suspended his campaign for California governor following the accusations.