NEW YORK—A former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was arrested and charged with sexual abuse on Friday, Aug. 24, after being accused of groping a woman last year.
A 55-year-old woman filed a complaint in July against Thomas Frieden, who once served as the city’s health commissioner, accusing him of grabbing her buttocks without permission last October at his Brooklyn apartment, said New York City Police Department spokeswoman Arlene Muniz. The woman’s name was not divulged.
