The doctor who ran the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for eight years under the Obama Administration was arrested Friday and charged with groping a female acquaintance in his Brooklyn home last October.
The accuser is a 55-year-old woman who told police last month that Frieden had squeezed her rear end against her will when their spouses were not looking during a gathering at Dr. Frieden’s Brooklyn Heights home, police sources told The New York Times.
The woman is a #metoo activist and wrote on the incident for a magazine in April without revealing the identity of her attacker, according to the newspaper. Frieden, 57, has been charged with forcible touching, third-degree sexual abuse and harassment.
Frieden also served as New York City’s health commissioner from 2002 to 2009 under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
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