https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6212551/Brett-Kavanaughs-accuser-history-money-troubles-unpaid-taxes.html
The woman who says she witnessed Brett Kavanaugh drugging girls in order to rape them with groups of boys at high school parties has a history of financial troubles, according to federal and state tax records.
And her estranged father said he was shocked by the allegations she has leveled against Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
Julie Swetnick, 55, who was the third woman to come forward to accuse Kavanaugh of sexual assault, allegedly failed to pay over $100,000 in taxes and fees in Maryland and to the Internal Revenue Service since 2015.
The state of Maryland filed a $62,000 tax lien against her home in Washington, D.C. in October 2015, claiming she owed $32,000 in back taxes dating to 2008, and the additional amount in interest.
The case was settled in 2016. Her attorney- Michael Avenatti - said she paid off all her debts in full.
Swetnick also allegedly owed $40,303 to the IRS stemming from unpaid 2014 taxes, resulting in a federal tax lien on her home in October 2017. That lien was resolved in March of 2018.
Swetnick, an IT consultant who owns a company called International Business Solutions, says in an online resume that she has worked for the State Department, the Department of Justice, and other federal agencies.
Her attorney, Michael Avenatti, said his client currently holds a federal security clearance.
He told DailyMail.com: 'They have been fully paid and are irrelevant to her claims. Why are you digging up dirt on and attacking a sexual abuse victim?'
Swetnick stepped forward on Wednesday to claim in the early 1980s she witnessed Brett Kavanaugh and his high school classmate Mark Judge drug and sexually assault girls during high school parties.
Swetnick wrote in an affidavit that she met Kavanaugh and Judge at a party in 1980 or 1981. Swetnick, who graduated from Gaithersburg High School in 1980, was three years older than the boys at the time.
She also attended a public high school, while the two boys attended the elite Washington prep school Georgetown Prep.
Kavanaugh, who has so far denied all of the sexual assault allegations against him, said he has never met Swetnick.
'This is ridiculous and from the Twilight Zone,' he said on Wednesday. 'I don't know who this is and this never happened.'
Swetnick's parents Martin and her late mother Elaine were both government workers.
Her father worked for NASA as a lunar scientist and her mother Elaine was a geologist with the Atomic Energy Commission.
He told the Washington Post that he was shocked at the allegations, but had been almost entirely estranged from his daughter for 10 years.
He said she was a 'typical girl', and added: 'She was not shy. She was a good-looking girl.'
But he said he had little insight into her high school years as he had been traveling a lot and added: 'She lived her life. We didn't discuss it.'
She had failed to complete college and later became a web developer, gaining government contracts.
'She never went to college, but she bootstrapped herself and became a computer expert,' her father said. ' She's a sharp woman.'
Swetnick said in an affidavit that she attended at least 10 parties with Kavanaugh and Judge between 1981 and 1983. She claims she witnessed them spiking 'punch' drinks with drugs and alcohol in order to get female partygoers incapacitated and run group sex 'trains' on them.
Swetnick said she witnessed groups of boys raping the intoxicated girls, and saw boys lining up outside bedrooms to wait their turn to have group sex with the young women.