Current Events > Schumer calls cops after forged sexual assault claims

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https://www.axios.com/schumer-calls-cops-after-forged-sex-scandal-charge-2517019807.html

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said he was the victim of a fake news hit on Tuesday, and has turned over to Capitol Police a document that purports to detail lurid sexual harassment accusations by a former staffer.

Why it matters: This was an apparent effort to dupe reporters and smear a senator both symptoms of an amped-up news environment where harassment charges are proliferating and reporters have become targets for fraud.

-The former staffer told me in a phone interview that she did not author the document, that none of the charges ring true, and that her signature was forged.
-She said she had never heard of the document before Axios took it to Schumer's office for comment on Tuesday.
-Matt House, Schumer's communications director, told me: "The document is a forged document and every allegation is false. We have turned it over to the Capitol Police and asked them to investigate and pursue criminal charges because it is clear the law has been broken."
-House continued: "We believe the individual responsible for forging the document should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law to prevent other malicious actors from doing the same."
The backstory:

-A password-protected PDF of the 13-page document was shopped to Axios and other outlets. The document, which is dated 2012 and has the file name "Schumer_Complaint," looks like a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
-One of many red flags: No lawyer for the staffer is named.
-The woman named in the document was a legislative staffer for Schumer from 2009 to 2012, and is now a career employee of the federal government.
-The former staffer said she took the matter to Washington, D.C. police on Tuesday. She said the police told her they were unsure of their jurisdiction in the case. She said she now plans to go to Capitol Police.
-She told me in a statement: "The claims in this document are completely false, my signature is forged, and even basic facts about me are wrong. I have contacted law enforcement to determine who is responsible. I parted with Senator Schumer's office on good terms and have nothing but the fondest memories of my time there."
-Axios agreed to her stipulation that she not be named, because she said she is the victim of a crime.
A source close to Schumer said the document is full of errors:

"The document contains an allegation of inappropriate behavior on September 16th 2011 in Washington, but Schumer was in New York City."
"It contains an allegation of inappropriate behavior by Schumer on August 25th 2011 in Washington, but Schumer was in France."
The source tells Axios that reporters from the Washington Post, CNN, BuzzFeed, The New Yorker and ABC all inquired about the document Tuesday.

https://twitter.com/VicBergerIV/status/940767769624240129
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ohthatschumer
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what did amy schumer do?
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If you're gonna go through all the work of forging that document you should probably take the extra two minutes to google where the senator was on those days...

Just seems like an absurd amount of effort for something dismissed immediately because the most simple facts are wrong.
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thought this was gonna be about Amy Schumer
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bump
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This is what you do when the accusations against you are actually false. Take notes, Moore.
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thronedfire2 posted...

thought this was gonna be about Amy Schumer

I think they are related actually. like he is her uncle or something

bump
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Seems that it may have been Cernovich. He had some tweets that have since been deleted bragging with another dude that they were going to be taking down a senator.
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That's so Schumer
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Heineken14 posted...

Seems that it may have been Cernovich. He had some tweets that have since been deleted bragging with another dude that they were going to be taking down a senator.

Couldn't have happened to a more perfect idiot.
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leverageblargh posted...

thronedfire2 posted...

thought this was gonna be about Amy Schumer

This, topic title seems like the kind of shit she would pull

I mean, I would think a lot of people would call the authorities after a forged sexual assault attempt.
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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/us/politics/schumer-fraudulent-document-harassment.html

It was not immediately clear on Wednesday who was behind the fake document about Mr. Schumer. But on Tuesday, conservative bloggers Mike Cernovich, a far-right activist, and Charles C. Johnson, a right-wing internet provocateur, posted messages on social media about a sexual harassment complaint against an unnamed senator.

However, Mr. Cernovich said neither he nor Mr. Johnson was behind the document of false claims against Mr. Schumer. In Twitter posts on Tuesday, Mr. Cernovich said he did his homework and concluded the document was a hoax.

Mr. Cernovich pushed last years so-called Pizzagate conspiracy, a false rumor suggesting Hillary Clinton and her aides were part of a pedophile ring run from the basement of a Washington pizzeria. But he is also credited with helping to expose a complaint against a congressman. BuzzFeed News, which first published documents about a settled sexual harassment complaint between Representative John Conyers Jr. and a former staffer, said it received the documents from Mr. Cernovich. Mr. Conyers, Democrat of Michigan, resigned on Dec. 5.

The fake Schumer document was being circulated as early as Dec. 11, when Mr. Johnson posted this message on Facebook: Michael Cernovich & I are going to end the career of a U.S. Senator.

A spokeswoman for the Capitol Police said the agency does not comment on ongoing investigations.

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Zeeak4444 posted...

If you're gonna go through all the work of forging that document you should probably take the extra two minutes to google where the senator was on those days...

Just seems like an absurd amount of effort for something dismissed immediately because the most simple facts are wrong.

Even if they did do that, it wouldn't negate the fact that the person who supposedly made the complaint knows she didn't make the complaint. Like, there was no actual way for this to succeed
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My best guess is that they just assumed (like James O'Keefe) that no one was actually looking into/verifying these things, and quickly went about proving their assumptions wrong.
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DocileOrangeCup posted...

ohthatschumer

Scotty_Rogers posted...

what did amy schumer do?

thronedfire2 posted...

thought this was gonna be about Amy Schumer

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Women lying about harassment say it ain't so
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assassingriskel posted...

Women lying about harassment say it ain't so

Note: the best guess is that two men were behind this
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assassingriskel posted...

Women lying about harassment say it ain't so

Try reading the story next time
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shockthemonkey posted...

Is Project Veritas behind this? Seems like their style.

All signs point to Mike Cernovich and Benny Johnson, who are both humongous dipshits, but not affiliated with PV to my knowledge.
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shockthemonkey posted...

Those names dont ring a bell, who are they generally associated with?

They more or less do their own thing

Cernovich is a pizzagate pusher who also sells snake oil and weird self-help books. He has some, uh, interesting thoughts on women.

He was recently behind the push to get that MSNBC guy fired for his Roman Polanski joke from 2009
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cernovich-sam-seder-msnbc-twitter-rape_us_5a26bb8fe4b06d807b4f6557

Benny Johnson used to write for Buzzfeed, where he mainly did listicles about the dumbest shit imaginable, like the menu at the Congressional food court and "The story of Egypt's revolution in Jurassic Park gifs"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/bennyjohnson/the-story-of-egypts-revolution-in-jurassic-park-gifs
He got fired for being a serial plagiarist and has been spiraling down the right-wing blogosphere for years.
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