Who Is E. Jean Carroll? Writer Who Accused Trump Of Sexual Assault, Now Under Criminal Investigation (Image: X)
A criminal investigation has been launched into writer and former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll by the US Justice Department, which previously filed two civil lawsuits against President Donald Trump for sexual assault and defamation. Investigators are looking into whether Carroll perjured himself in his testimony in multiple cases, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the matter. The investigation is believed to focus on comments she provided in a deposition last year in 2022, in which she testified she had not taken any financial support from other sources to pursue her lawsuits against Trump, according to CNN.
The investigation is the latest development in a years long feud between the president and Carroll, who also accused Trump of sexual harassment which led to multimillion dollar civil verdicts that are now on appeal. According to the prosecutors, their attention is being drawn to later disclosures that billionaire entrepreneur Reid Hoffman paid some of Carroll’s legal costs and other expenses through a nonprofit group. Trump’s defense lawyers had previously submitted evidence that Carroll had been lying when he said he funded the account. Carroll also gave videotaped deposition to then Trump attorney Alina Habba, in which she said no one else was covering her legal fees. But a week before trial, Carroll’s attorneys explained to the court and Trump’s lawyers that the money had been raised by Hoffman’s nonprofit. Carroll’s attorneys said they never spoke with Hoffman or anyone working for the organisation. Later, the judge presiding over the case refused to let Trump’s lawyers cross examine Carroll about the funding deal.
JUST IN: Trump’s DOJ has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll over alleged perjury tied to her lawsuits against Trump
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The investigation is also said to be garnering attention due to allegations of political influence at the Justice Department under acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. Under the new department, critics have charged since April, when Blanche took office, the department has been aggressively looking for cases that are favorable to Trump’s personal grievances. But sources close to the case have indicated that Blanche is avoiding the investigation into Carroll because he had served as Trump’s lawyer on appeals related to the civil suits. The deputy attorney general’s office is instead handling the case. Senior officials at the Justice Department reportedly handed the investigation over to the federal prosecutors in Chicago, where one of the nonprofits linked to Hoffman is based.
Carroll, 82, is still embroiled in several court cases against Trump. In the mid 1990s, she claims he assaulted her in a New York department store, and in the past, she received millions of dollars in damages from juries for past sexual abuse charges and defamation. Trump has long denied the allegations, which he has said Carroll invented to sell her book. He is now challenging the $5 million sexual abuse verdict and a separate $83 million defamation sentence. The US Supreme Court has been called on to hear Trump’s appeal, but it has delayed numerous times, and again did so on Wednesday. Carroll’s lawyers have refused to comment on the latest investigation.
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