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American comedian and politician (born 1951)
No credible reporting in the provided sources accuses Carl Reiner of being a pedophile or of allowing people to have sex with his son Rob; mainstream outlets instead describe family history, Nick Rein...
Al Franken resigned from the U.S. Senate after , but the specific allegations are not detailed in the provided articles. The materials reviewed show repeated references to accusations as the proximate...
There is no single authoritative count in the provided reporting that answers “How many Democrats have been charged with sexual misconduct”; available sources give counts for mixed-party datasets (e.g...
No credible allegations or investigations accusing Carl Reiner of sexual abuse appear in the reporting provided; the contemporary news cycle and the sourced documents focus on Rob Reiner, his son Nick...
Multiple news outlets reported that Al Franken faced a wave of allegations in late 2017 that he inappropriately kissed, groped, or touched several women; reporting counted at least seven to nine accus...
Reporting from national outlets and state-focused investigations shows numerous sexual‑misconduct allegations involving politicians of both parties during the 2024 election cycle, with many accusation...
In late 2017 Senator Al Franken was accused by multiple women of a pattern of sexual misconduct dating back to his years as a comedian, with the first public charge alleging an unwanted kiss and gropi...
Leeann Tweeden publicly released a photograph she said shows Al Franken with his hands over her sleeping chest taken on a 2006 USO flight, and she described an on-stage forced kiss from the same tour;...
Multiple news reports from September 2025 say that several women accused Senator Al Franken of , and that the buildup of these allegations and public pressure from Democratic colleagues led to Franken...
A review of the reporting supplied finds no public records, civil complaints, criminal charges, or lawsuits alleging sexual misconduct by Carl Reiner; the only reference to Reiner in the set involves ...
Al Franken publicly apologized to Leeann Tweeden and other women, acknowledged some conduct was inappropriate, and pledged to cooperate with an Ethics Committee inquiry while also contesting some reco...
Leeann Tweeden’s public allegations in November 2017—that Al Franken forcibly kissed her during a 2006 USO rehearsal and later posed for a photo with his hands on her while she slept—were the first wi...
Available reporting in the provided sources does not present public records or credible contemporary allegations that Carl Reiner committed sexual misconduct; references to Carl in these pieces consis...
Al Franken resigned from the U.S. Senate in December 2017 after multiple women accused him of unwanted kissing, groping and other inappropriate touching dating back as far as 2006; Leeann Tweeden’s ac...
Since the #MeToo surge in 2017, reporting and databases show that consequences for elected officials accused of sexual misconduct have been substantial but uneven: a sizable fraction resigned or were ...
Available sources do not provide a single, authoritative count of how many Democratic elected officials have been charged with sexual misconduct since 2000; reporting instead compiles allegations and ...
The available analyses consistently show that the #MeToo movement materially shaped the political response to allegations against Senator Al Franken, producing a cascade of public accusations and rapi...
GovTrack’s public profile for Senator Al Franken states he was the primary sponsor of four bills that were enacted into law, explicitly noting one—his bill served as the vehicle for the Safe and Accur...
Studies and news counts show substantial allegations of sexual misconduct across both parties: the AP cataloged at least 147 state lawmakers accused since 2017 and finds Republicans and Democrats are ...
Al Franken resigned effective January 2, 2018; Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton appointed Democrat Tina Smith to fill the seat on January 3, 2018, and she served until winning a special election in Nove...