Julie Swetnick’s former boyfriend — a one-time Maryland Democratic congressional candidate — told Senate investigators she never told him about being sexually assaulted or mentioned Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh in any way.
“Julie never said anything about being sexually assaulted, raped, gang-raped or having sex against her will,” Dennis Ketterer, the former boyfriend, said in a letter to the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. “She never mentioned Brett Kavanaugh in any capacity.”
Swetnick has claimed Kavanaugh and his high school friends spiked punch to get her and other girls drunk, then gang-raped them at nearly a dozen parties she attended in suburban Maryland in the early 1980s.
“I know what it’s like to be sexually assaulted and not be believed,” Ketterer wrote. “I was nine years old when it happened, at the hands of my grandfather’s best friend.”
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Besides being a one-time Democratic congressional candidate, Ketterer also worked as a weather forecaster at ABC’s WJLA Channel 7 in Washington. He sent the letter to the committee under penalty of a felony if he is found out to be lying. He said he dated Swetnick in the mid-1990s.
“Because I had lost Julie’s number, I called her father to get it,” Ketterer told the Senate. “When I talked to him about possibly bringing her on to help with my campaign, he told me that she had psychological and other problems at the time.”
Ketterer said his relationship with Swetnick was derailed when she told him she liked to have multiple sexual partners at the same time. She wanted to know whether he was okay with that, but he decided to end the relationship.
Swetnick was the third woman to accuse Kavanaugh of sexual molestation in the early 1980s. She is represented by porn star lawyer Michael Avenatti, who is considering seeking the 2020Democratic presidential nomination.
Christine Blasey Ford was the first, accusing him of attacking her during a high school party in 1982. Deborah Ramirez, the second woman, claimed Kavanaugh exposed himself to her during a drunken dorm party, when both were Yale freshmen.
“Julie never said anything about being sexually assaulted, raped, gang-raped or having sex against her will. She never mentioned Brett Kavanaugh in any capacity.”
Kavanaugh has strenuously denied ever sexually assaulting any person anytime in his life, and very few of the facts surrounding the events described by the three accusers has been corroborated. None of the witnesses named by the three women have confirmed their claims.
Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) responded to the first claims by launching an investigation, canceling the committee’s planned vote on sending the nomination to the full Senate and scheduled a September 27 hearing at which Ford and Kavanaugh both testified.
Ford admitted during the hearing that she cannot recall where the alleged assault happened, how she got to the location, how she left it, how many people were present, or when it occurred.
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