Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., wrote the FBI last fall about new information about allegations made against Brett Kavanaugh during his Supreme Court confirmation process, but the claim was not investigated, according to published reports Monday.
Coons asked FBI Director Christopher Wray in an Oct. 2, 2018, letter for an "appropriate follow up" with someone who had come to the senator with the information about Kavanaugh, The Washington Post reports.
The Post obtained the one-page letter, though the person's name was redacted. But a Coons spokesman confirmed Monday that the person was Max Stier, a Kavanaugh classmate at Yale University who now "leads a prominent nonpartisan group in Washington," according to the report.
Coons, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that held Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings, told Wray that "several individuals" wanting to share information had notified his office but had "difficulty reaching anyone who will collect their information," the Post reports.
"I cannot speak to the relevance or veracity of the information that many of these individuals seek to provide, and I have encouraged them to use the FBI tip portal or contact a regional FBI field office," Coons told Wray.
As for Stier, however, the senator said that he was "one individual whom I would like to specifically refer to you for appropriate follow up."
Stier sought to remain confidential, aides told the Post, so Coons worked to send the information directly to the FBI to keep sensitive details from becoming public.
When Coons wrote the Oct. 2 letter, the FBI was conducting a supplemental background check on Kavanaugh, a former appellate court judge who was facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, before his Oct. 6 confirmation vote.
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