Now that news reports have uncovered some unwelcome details about Julie Swetnick, the woman who claims U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is a gang rapist, it appears her attorney, Michael Avenatti, doesn’t have the credible witness he promised.
Swetnick is a veteran tax dodger, and invited a restraining order from a man and his family because she harassed them.
But the government and an old boyfriend aren’t the only victims of the vengeful woman, and it’s more than suspicious who her attorney in that case was.
Lawsuit
According to the Wall Street Journal, Swetnick sued New York Life Insurance for — wouldn’t you know it — discrimination.
“Roughly a decade ago,” WSJ reported, “Swetnick was involved in a dispute with her former employer, New York Life Insurance Co., over a sexual-harassment complaint she filed, according to people familiar with the matter.”
The company settled with Swetnick.
Swetnick worked for the insurance behemoth for less than two years, the newspaper reported, and does not include the position on her résumé.
The New American detailed Swetnick’s other problems earlier today.
Apparently, she has trouble filing her taxes: “In 2015, the state of Maryland filed an interstate lien against her property in the District,” the Washington Post reported, including more than “$32,000 in unpaid taxes from 2008, and another $27,000 in interest on the seven-year-old debt.”
The bill was settled, but in 2016 the feds nailed her on $40,000 unpaid taxes in 2014, placing a lien on the property in 2017.
Beyond that, a former boyfriend hit Swetnick with a restraining order. She had threatened his wife and family.
“I know a lot about her,” the man said. “She’s not credible at all. Not at all.”
That’s not what Avenatti told the world when he leveled the outrageous charge a few days ago. Of course, he has something of a credibility problem himself.
The anti-Trump lawyer, who some say plans to run for president, faces financial troubles similar to his client’s. A bankruptcy judge has blocked him from spending fees of $10 million from 54 cases, one of which is that of his premier client, Stormy Daniels, the porn queen.
Debra Katz, Resistance Member
But back to Swetnick’s shakedown of New York Life. Her attorney? Debra Katz, who represents Christine Blasey Ford, Kavanaugh’s first accuser.
Katz, as is well known by now, toils for a group funded by the subversive political philanthropist, George Soros. As Front Page Magazine reported, she is the vice-chairman of POGO, the Project on Government Oversight, a leftist outfit that supposedly tracks government waste and abuse.
Representing POGO, she signed a letter asking the Judiciary Committee to demand the release of records relating to Kavanaugh. As interesting as the Soros connection is, it’s not as disturbing as Katz’s behind-the-scene skullduggery in getting a reporter for the NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C. pulled from a story.
Fox reporter Doug McKelway revealed on Twitter yesterday his belief that the radical lawyer had him pulled from a story.
Tweeted McKelway, “My Debra Katz story. In the mid 1990s, I was anchoring for NBC4 in DC. She sent a fax to us alerting us to a racial discrimination suit she was filing against Bank of America. It was late Friday afternoon. I read the suit. It was incredibly weak, smelled of a shakedown attempt.”
What happened next, as McKelway explained in three more tweets, proved it:
Went to her office with camera. Got miked up. I told her it smelled of a shakedown attempt, and I was familiar with the technique of late Friday accusation, too late for deep pocketed organization to respond with its multi-layered PR office in some distant city. The story would …
Stew over the weekend, prolly result in a settlement, sparing her the hard work of trial preparation. She then …
Ripped the mike off, called my lefty news director, who then called me, and pulled me off the story. It’s riveted in my memory. Always thought she was sleazy, and I guess my news director was, too.
Katz is a #MeToo legal adviser, and most importantly, considers herself a member of the anti-Trump Resistance, as video of her bellyaching about the nomination of Jeff Sessions to be attorney general well showed: “We are going to fight back. We are going to resist. We will not be silenced.”
Image: screenshot from YouTube video of interview with Swetnick
