House Ethics Chief Accused of Assaulting Women

The man in charge of preliminary investigations into allegations of misconduct in the House of Representatives is himself accused of physically and verbally assaulting women. 

A lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania alleges that Omar Ashmawy, staff director at the Office of Congressional Ethics, initiated a 2015 Valentine's Day brawl at Milford's Dimmick Inn, which resulted in the bar owner and another man pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge, reports Foreign Policy.

 A third man, Greg Martucci—who had charges against him dropped—alleges "an extremely violent and belligerent" Ashmawy was "verbally abusive" to a female bartender and "threw and/or pushed" the bar owner's wife and a third woman, per the New York Daily News. The bar owner's wife told police that Ashmawy, who was not charged, grabbed her by the wrists before falling on top of her.

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