FBI confronts Eric Swalwell at California airport, seizes electronics in sexual misconduct probe: report

Former Rep. Eric Swalwell, the disgraced California politician accused of rape, was reportedly confronted by FBI agents at San Francisco International Airport, where they seized his electronics as part of a federal criminal probe.

Agents served Swalwell with a search warrant Saturday after he arrived in California and seized his cellphone and other electronics, the Daily Mail reported.

Sources told the outlet, agents also executed additional warrants at Swalwell’s Washington, DC, home Sunday, where they seized other potential evidence.

Swalwell, 45, was reportedly cooperative during the airport encounter.

The investigation comes as the former California congressman faces multiple allegations of sexual misconduct, including claims from a former staffer who alleged that he raped her twice when she was too intoxicated to consent.

Following four women’s public accusations, Swalwell, who was a frontrunner at the time, ended his campaign for governor of California.

Another woman has accused him of drugging her before sexually assaulting her in 2018.

Two other women alleged that he sent them unsolicited images of his genitals.

The Department of Justice opened an investigation into the former congressman in April.

At 45, Swalwell was also facing scrutiny from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Swalwell has strongly denied the accusations. The allegations nonetheless derailed his campaign for California governor, prompting him to withdraw from a race in which he had once been a leading contender.

He subsequently resigned from Congress.

Swalwell has largely stayed out of the spotlight since then, including Monday as newly declassified records were released detailing his past interactions with the Chinese spy known as “Fang Fang.”

The documents, released by the White House Transparency Task Force, show Swalwell told the FBI that he had “occasionally hooked up” with Fang.

The California Post has reached out to the FBI and Swalwell for comment.

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