Lawmakers Seek Update From DOJ on Avenatti, Swetnick Criminal Referrals: ‘What Have You Done?’

Attorney Michael Avenatti speaks to the press after leaving the federal court house in Manhattan, on March 25, 2019. Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images

Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), head of the Senate Judiciary Committee during the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, was among lawmakers who wrote to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Oct. 8, asking what the department has done with criminal referrals made in the wake of the hearings.

Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court, but the hearings included a slew of sexual assault allegations, none of which were proven.