Tom Frieden, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was arrested Friday in New York after he was accused of groping a woman last year, law enforcement officials said. According to the New York Police Department, Frieden is accused of grabbing a woman’s buttocks without permission on Oct. 20, 2017. “He was arrested for forcible touching, for sexual abuse and harassment, for touching her buttocks without permission,” a New York police spokeswoman said. After leaving the CDC, Frieden became president of Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative housed at a non-profit global health organization, Vital Strategies, that is trying to strengthen the public health system. As New York’s health commissioner under then-Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (I), Frieden was the architect of controversial public health policies.

Source: Washington Post August 24, 2018 16:23 UTC