NEW DELHI: The one-time chief spokeswoman of Eric Garcetti, the Mayor of Los Angeles and President Joe Biden's nominee to be Ambassador to India, has filed a complaint with local, state and federal prosecutors, demanding that he be prosecuted for perjury for repeatedly denying that he knew about another former aides alleged sexual misconduct, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Garcetti has already had his nomination reported out of committee despite the swirling allegations, the Daily Mail reported a day later after the Los Angeles Times on February 7.
A non-profit law firm sent a 31-page letter on behalf of Naomi Seligman to the US Department of Justice, the California Attorney General's office and Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon last week, accusing Garcetti of lying and conspiring with top staffers to cover up multiple accusations of sexual harassment against Rick Jacobs, the Mayor's former deputy chief of staff, Los Angeles Times had reported.
Seligman said she hopes felony charges will be filed against the Mayor for allegedly lying under oath, in a legal deposition and in testimony to a US Senate committee.
She said she hopes that the letter also will have a political impact — causing the US Senate to block Garcetti's confirmation as Washington's Ambassador to India, Los Angeles Times had reported.
The allegations were forwarded to more than half the members of the Senate, said Seligman's lawyers, who also filed the complaints with the California State Personnel Board, the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission and the California State Auditor's Office, under provisions of the state's whistleblower protection law, the report said.
"Senators should be outraged that someone nominated to represent our country in a key diplomatic post would lie to their faces so brazenly," Seligman said in a statement. (IANS)
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