Report: Kevin Johnson Offered Money to Accuser News10.net Sacramento, California News:
"SACRAMENTO, CA (AP) -- One of three girls who accused Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson of inappropriately touching her while she attended his St. Hope's Academy Hood Corps program was allegedly offered $1,000 a month to keep quiet, according to a Congressional report made public Friday.
The report was released by Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Vista, and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. The girl was not named in the 62-page report.
Johnson was in Boston and could not be reached for comment. His spokesman Steve Maviglio denied the girl's claim."
"These are all allegations," Maviglio told News10. "They've been looked at by the Sacramento Police Department, by the U.S. Attorney, by the FBI, by Americorps, and nobody has found any merit in them because there is no merit."
"We've all known about these interviews and these allegations for months and months, more than a year actually. But there's nothing new other than they're coming to light to the public for the first time," Maviglio added.
Issa and Grassley claim federal prosecutors rushed into a settlement with St. Hope. They say the settlement whitewashed a 2008 government investigation into whether the nonprofit misused federal money.
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