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WASHINGTON — Charles Ludington, a classmate of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh at Yale University, will provide information to the FBI Monday, he confirmed to NBC News.
News of Ludington’s involvement was first reported by The Washington Post, which said he planned to give a statement to the FBI at its field office in Raleigh, N.C., “detailing violent drunken behavior by Kavanaugh in college.”
In a copy of his statement given to The Post, Ludington, a professor at North Carolina State University, described Kavanaugh as a “belligerent and aggressive” drunk.
“On one of the last occasions I purposely socialized with Brett, I witnessed him respond to a semi-hostile remark, not by defusing the situation, but by throwing his beer in the man’s face and starting a fight that ended with one of our mutual friends in jail,” the statement said.
During his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing last week, Kavanaugh was repeatedly asked about his drinking habits in high school and college and denied having a problem.
In his statement, however, Ludington wrote that “if he lied about his past actions on national television, and more especially while speaking under oath in front of the United States Senate, I believe those lies should have consequences.”
On Sunday, a member of Ford’s legal team told NBC News that Christine Blasey Ford, one of Kavanaugh’s accusers, and her lawyers have not been contacted by the FBI in the days since President Donald Trump ordered on Friday a supplemental FBI background investigation into the sexual misconduct allegations she and others have made against Kavanaugh.
While the FBI will examine the allegations of Ford and Deborah Ramirez, Julie Swetnick, who has accused Kavanaugh of engaging in sexual misconduct at parties while he was a student at Georgetown Preparatory School in the 1980s, isn’t on the list of those to be interviewed by the agency, people familiar with the investigation told NBC News.