Federal agents met Eric Swalwell at San Francisco Airport on Saturday with a search warrant in hand, seizing the former congressman’s electronic devices, including his mobile phone, as part of a federal criminal probe into sexual misconduct allegations, Our News Outlet has exclusively learned.
A day later, FBI agents carrying additional court-authorized warrants entered Swalwell’s Washington, D.C., residence, where they collected further undisclosed items believed to be potential evidence, according to well-placed sources familiar with the investigation.
Sources said Swalwell began Saturday in Washington, where he continues to keep a home with his wife and their three children.
Later that day, he traveled to the airport and boarded a flight to California, his home state. When he arrived and exited the plane, federal authorities were already waiting.
Those familiar with the encounter said Swalwell cooperated with the agents.
On Sunday, when federal agents arrived at the couple’s property in Northeast Washington, neither Swalwell nor his wife, Brittany Watts, was at home, sources said.
Swalwell, 45, is facing several allegations of sexual assault.
At least four women have accused him of sexual misconduct, including a former staff member who alleged that the married politician raped her twice, in 2019 and 2024, when she was too intoxicated to give consent.
FBI agents confronted Eric Swalwell with a search warrant at San Francisco Airport on Saturday
Exclusive Daily Mail photos from May showed Swalwell’s wife Brittany Watts, 41, stepping out of their DC residence without her wedding ring as her husband remained out of sight
Another woman alleged he drugged and raped her in 2018.
Two of the women said he had sent them unsolicited pictures of his penis.
The Department of Justice launched its investigation into the disgraced former congressman in April.
Swalwell, 45, was also being investigated by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Swalwell has vehemently denied the allegation, but they nevertheless torpedoed his campaign for California governor, forcing him to drop out of a race he’d once led.
The Democrat also promptly resigned in disgrace from Congress.
He’s kept a low profile ever since, including Monday when newly declassified records were released about his escapades with the Chinese spy known as ‘Fang Fang.’
The White House Transparency Task Force dropped the documents, in which Swalwell admitted to the FBI that he ‘occasionally hooked up’ with Fang.
The former Democratic congressman, 46, met Watts when they were introduced by mutual friends in 2015. She is seen here with her husband wearing her wedding band
Swalwell had landed at San Francisco Airport (stock image) Saturday when he was confronted by FBI agents
Agents, armed with additional court-approved search warrants, also entered his house in Washington, DC on Sunday
The Chinese national spent years cozying up to rising California Democrats, helping bundle donations for Swalwell’s 2014 re-election campaign and even placing an intern in his congressional office.
Swalwell has not been accused by law enforcement of any wrongdoing in the Fang Fang scandal.
Meanwhile, he has denied any wrongdoing in connection with the sexual assault and sexual misconduct allegations. While rejecting the claims, the former lawmaker acknowledged making ‘mistakes in judgment’ and apologized to his wife.
While the accusations destroyed his political career and prompted calls for further investigations from both parties, the state of his 9-year-marriage remains in question.
Exclusive Daily Mail photos from May showed Watts, 41, stepping out of their DC residence without her wedding ring as her husband remained out of sight.
Swalwell’s legal team reportedly claimed that publicizing the Fang Fang (R) documents would look like a punitive bid to weaponize the department against him
The White House Transparency Task Force dropped the new documents under the title ‘Rusty Thumbs,’ another moniker given to the woman whose real name is Christine Fang
‘Eric has been accused of horrible things. How do you live with that?’ a friend of the family said at the time.
The allegations began with claims from a former staffer who alleged she was raped by Swalwell when she was too intoxicated to consent.
She told CNN that in April 2024, after a night of heavy drinking in New York City, she woke up to Swalwell having sex with her in his hotel bed.
‘I was pushing him off of me, saying no,’ she said, adding that it happened after she stopped working in his office. ‘He didn’t stop.’
At least four women have now accused the Congressman of sexual misconduct, including the former staffer.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Eric Swalwell and the Department of Justice for comment.
