Things have officially heated up on the legal front regarding allegations of sexual assault that have been levied against former East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell, after several months in which he seemed to be lying low.

Former Congressman Eric Swalwell was stopped by the FBI at San Francisco International Airport on Saturday and agents seized all his electronic devices, as CNN reports. This was reportedly occurring just as agents were also raiding Swalwell's home in Washington, DC. These raids are reportedly connected to a federal investigation into sexual assault claims that have been made by at least two women against Swalwell — and this is in addition to ongoing investigations by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department into those claims.

As we learned in April, a former staffer who worked in Swalwell's East Bay office says that he sexually assaulted her when she was 21 years old in 2019, when she was blackout drunk. This occurred after she had had several consensual sexual encounters with the congressman, she said, and she did not come forward out of fear of embarrassment or retaliation.

The same staffer said that Swalwell assaulted her again, under similar circumstances, in a New York hotel room in 2024.

So far, despite one allegation taking place in Castro Valley, the Alameda County District Attorney's Office, where Swalwell once worked, has not opened an investigation, because no victims have yet come forward in Alameda County.

A second woman, Lonna Drewes, subsequently came forward alleging that Swalwell drugged and raped her in Los Angeles in 2018. And three other women also made claims of sexual misconduct against Swalwell, including one who said she woke up in a hotel room with him not remembering what had happened the night before.

Swalwell resigned from Congress and dropped out of the California governor's race within days of these allegations surfacing.

As the New York Times reports, federal agents "appeared to be using civil rights statutes as a means to scrutinize Mr. Swalwell’s conduct with his accusers." And it stands to reason that President Trump, whom Swalwell was vocally critical of, would seek any means to take revenge while Swalwell is in a vulnerable position — even though, as the Times notes, sex crimes are typically handled by state and local authorities.

The FBI raids come just days after the White House declassified FBI files on Swalwell that date back over a decade, and which show that Swalwell admitted to having multiple sexual encounters with a Chinese spy who appeared to be engaged in a "honeypot" scheme just as he was seeking his first congressional term.

Swalwell has denied the sexual assault allegations against him, initially suggesting that they were being fabricated to derail his gubernatorial campaign.

Neither Swalwell nor his attorney have commented on the FBI raids.

Previously: Former Congressman Eric Swalwell Did, In Fact, Have Sex With That Chinese Spy