The U.S. Justice Department has initiated a perjury investigation into columnist E. Jean Carroll. Carroll was the plaintiff in a civil trial where former President Donald Trump was found liable for sexual assault.

The US Justice Department has launched an investigation for perjury into E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who a 2023 civil trial found had been sexually assaulted by US President Donald Trump in a New York department store 30 years ago, a source close to the matter told AP Thursday.