FBI agent charged with rape and sexual assault 2 years after DC Metro shooting acquittal
CNN
An FBI special agent is facing charges of rape and assault involving two women in Maryland, according to police in Montgomery County.
An FBI special agent is facing charges of rape and assault involving two women in Maryland, according to police in Montgomery County, two years after a state jury acquitted him after he shot and wounded a passenger on a Washington, DC-area Metro train. Eduardo Valdivia, 40, faces 10 felony and misdemeanor charges, including second-degree rape and second-degree assault, for acts that began in February, Assistant Chief of Police Nicholas Augustine said during a news conference Tuesday morning. Valdivia contacted the victims – two women in their 20s – via an Instagram page using a different name and invited them to a tattoo parlor, where he offered them tattoos and help getting modeling deals, Augustine said. The women did not know Valdivia was an FBI agent, he added. Valdivia was arrested Monday on sexual assault charges, his defense attorney, Robert Bonsib, confirmed to the Associated Press. “We don’t accept at first blush any of the allegations until all of the evidence is in,” said Bonsib, who declined CNN’s request for comment Tuesday morning. Valdivia remains in custody without bond following a bail hearing on Tuesday, during which a judge noted he was a danger to the community and a flight risk. Valdivia’s next court date is December 20 in Montgomery County, court records show.
Attorneys for Donald Trump conducted an internal investigation into allegations that one of his top aides, Boris Epshteyn, has sought to gain financially from his influence with Trump and others in the president-elect’s orbit, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
The special counsel stressed his decision was not about the strength of his case against Trump
CNN’s 5 Things brings you the news you need to know every morning.
A Republican senator has blocked the promotion of a general who oversaw the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to a source familiar with the matter, as President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to go after the officials involved in the withdrawal.
Special counsel Jack Smith said Monday that he is dropping his election subversion case against President-elect Donald Trump, seeking the case’s dismissal in a court filing with the judge.
President Joe Biden tapped into his presidential pardon power in the waning days of his time in office Monday, granting clemency to a pair of lucky turkeys and kicking off the holiday season.
The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a challenge from major tobacco companies to the Food and Drug Administration’s requirement that they place graphic health warnings on cigarette packages and in advertisements.
The family of Ajike “AJ” Owens, a Black mother of four who was shot and killed by her neighbor during an ongoing dispute over children playing near the neighbor’s home, says the 60-year-old white woman deserves “the maximum penalty under the law,” according to a statement.
Despite his campaign promises to leave the issue to the states, President-elect Donald Trump’s administration will shape the national landscape around abortion and reproductive health.
The criminal cases of actors Jussie Smollett and Bill Cosby, both Black, high-profile entertainers found guilty before their convictions were overturned, differ widely in details but share some parallels.
Uruguayans went to the polls Sunday for a second round of voting to choose their next president, with the conservative governing party and the left-leaning coalition locked in a close runoff after failing to win an outright majority in last month’s vote.