Mayor Eric Garcetti’s onetime chief spokeswoman has filed a complaint with local, state and federal prosecutors, demanding that he be prosecuted for perjury for repeatedly denying that he knew about another former aide’s alleged sexual misconduct. She said she hopes that the letter also will have a political impact — causing the U.S. Senate to block Garcetti’s confirmation as U.S. ambassador to India. “There is nothing new here — and these false claims about the mayor are just as ridiculous now as they were when they were first made,” a statement from Garcetti’s office said. Seligman, Garcetti’s onetime director of communications, first went public with her complaints about Jacobs and the mayor in a December article in New York magazine. Seligman left the mayor’s office in September of 2017, a little more than two years after being hired to head Garcetti’s communications efforts.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 08, 2022 08:26 UTC