Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, who ran the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for eight years under President Obama, was arrested in Brooklyn on Friday morning on a misdemeanor sex abuse charge after an incident in October 2017, the police said. A 55-year-old woman came forward to the police in July and said that Dr. Frieden grabbed her buttocks against her will nine months earlier, on Oct. 20, the police said. At 10 a.m. on Friday, Dr. Frieden was taken into custody at the 77th Precinct in Crown Heights. He was arraigned Friday afternoon before Justice Michael Yavinsky in Kings County Criminal Court and released without bail. He had served as New York City’s health commissioner from 2002 to 2009 under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

Source: New York Times August 24, 2018 16:20 UTC