2026-05-27T23:05:46.324Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
- 美国司法部已就E·让·卡罗尔在针对总统唐纳德·特朗普的诉讼中作证时可能存在的伪证行为启动刑事调查。
- 据知情人士向CNN透露，检察官正在审查卡罗尔在2022年的证词中是否谎称没有其他人支付其法律费用。
- 卡罗尔的律师拒绝就本次报道置评。
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据多位知情人士透露，美国司法部已对曾指控总统唐纳德·特朗普性侵的前杂志专栏作家E·让·卡罗尔启动刑事调查。
此次调查的重点是卡罗尔在与其针对总统的两起民事诉讼相关的证词中是否犯有伪证罪——一起诉讼指控特朗普在20世纪90年代中期于纽约一家百货商场性侵卡罗尔，另一起则是因特朗普在2019年多次否认性侵、称卡罗尔并非自己喜欢的类型并声称她编造此事以提升图书销量而对其提起的诽谤诉讼。
检方的调查依据是82岁的卡罗尔在2022年的一份证词声明，她当时称未收到针对诉讼的外部资助，但后来外界披露亿万一里德·霍夫曼曾支付部分法律费用和开支。
卡罗尔的团队拒绝就本次报道置评。记者周三联系霍夫曼未果。
美国司法部发言人向CNN表示：“我们可以确认，没有任何美国检察官办公室拒绝调查与CNN此次调查相关的任何案件。除此之外，我们不予置评。”
此次调查是司法部持续且略显刻意地满足特朗普要求打击其长期个人对手的最新举措。
在代理司法部长托德·布兰奇的领导下，司法部一直在加快推进特朗普的报复行动。但布兰奇自4月执掌司法部以来提起的案件遭到了强烈批评，且可能因被指政治化而在法庭上遭遇挑战。
但据知情人士透露，布兰奇已回避此次调查，因为他曾作为特朗普的个人律师参与卡罗尔案的上诉程序。布兰奇未出席相关会议，也未参与调查讨论，此次调查由副检察长办公室的其他官员负责监督。
据两位知情人士透露，司法部高级官员已将此次调查移交至芝加哥联邦检察官办公室。虽然卡罗尔的证词是在纽约作出的，但帮助支付卡罗尔部分法律费用的霍夫曼旗下有一家总部位于芝加哥的非营利组织。
当霍夫曼对该案的资助在审判前夕曝光时，特朗普的律师团队措手不及。
在2022年的录像证词中，卡罗尔告诉特朗普当时的律师阿丽娜·哈巴，没有人支付她的法律费用。但在审判前两周，卡罗尔的律师告知法官和特朗普的律师团队，他们已获得霍夫曼旗下非营利组织的资助。
卡罗尔的律师表示，她从未见过该非营利组织的相关人员，也未与其进行过任何对话。哈巴当时在法庭上称，卡罗尔的团队“密谋隐瞒真相近六个月”。
法官允许特朗普的律师团队再次对卡罗尔进行证词盘问，该证词尚未公开。
两周后审判开始时，刘易斯·卡普兰法官表示，他未发现卡罗尔的可信度存在问题，并禁止律师就霍夫曼的资助问题进行提问。
卡罗尔目前仍与总统处于多起法律纠纷中。陪审团已判给卡罗尔数百万美元的损害赔偿，总统正在对此提起上诉。特朗普已就500万美元的性侵案判决向最高法院提起上诉，并承诺也会对8300万美元的诽谤案判决提起上诉。
最高法院已12次推迟决定是否受理特朗普的上诉申请，最近一次推迟是在周三上午。
在另一起案件中，总统曾试图让司法部作为被告加入该案，以便辩称自己享有豁免权，但未成功。一个上诉法院合议庭表示，该论点在法律程序中提出得太晚了。
CNN记者约翰·弗里策对本文亦有贡献。
Exclusive: Justice Department launches a criminal investigation into Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll
2026-05-27T23:05:46.324Z / CNN
- The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll over potential perjury in testimony during her lawsuits against President Donald Trump.
- Prosecutors are examining whether Carroll lied in a 2022 deposition when she said no one else was paying her legal fees, sources familiar told CNN.
- Carroll’s lawyers declined to comment for this story.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.
The investigation is focused on whether Carroll committed perjury in testimony tied to her two civil lawsuits against the president – one alleging he sexually abused Carroll in a New York department store in the mid-1990s, and a second for defaming her when in 2019 he repeatedly denied the assault, said she wasn’t his type and claimed she made it up to boost sales of a book.
Prosecutors’ theory hinges on a 2022 deposition statement by Carroll, 82, that she received no outside funding for her lawsuit, though it was later revealed that billionaire Reid Hoffman had paid some legal fees and expenses.
Carroll’s team declined to comment for this story. Attempts to reach Hoffman on Wednesday were unsuccessful.
“We can confirm that no U.S. Attorney’s Office has declined to investigate any case relating to the subject matter of CNN’s inquiry,” a Justice Department spokesperson told CNN. “We will not comment beyond that.”
The probe is the latest move in the department’s ceaseless, and somewhat strained, efforts to meet Trump’s demands to target his long-standing personal foes.
Under acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the department has pushed to speed up Trump’s campaign of retribution. But the cases he’s brought since taking the reins of the department in April have been heavily criticized and are likely to face challenges in court over allegations of politicization.
But Blanche has been recused from this matter because he worked as one of Trump’s personal attorneys on the Carroll appeals, according to a source familiar with the matter. Blanche has not attended meetings or been involved in discussions about the investigations, and the investigation is being overseen by other officials in the deputy attorney general’s office.
Senior leaders at the Justice Department referred the investigation to federal prosecutors in Chicago, according to two sources familiar with the matter. While Carroll’s deposition took place in New York, one of the individuals who helped cover some of Carroll’s legal fees, Hoffman, has a nonprofit based in Chicago.
Hoffman’s support of the case caught Trump’s attorneys off guard when it came to light on the eve of trial.
In a 2022 videotaped deposition, Carroll told then-Trump attorney Alina Habba that no one else was paying for her legal fees. But two weeks before the trial Carroll’s attorneys informed the judge and Trump’s lawyers that they secured funding from Hoffman’s nonprofit.
Carroll’s lawyers said she never met nor had conversations with anyone associated with the nonprofit. Habba said in court at the time that Carroll’s team “conspired to conceal the truth for nearly six months.”
The judge permitted Trump’s attorneys to question Carroll again in a deposition, which has not been made public.
When the trial began two weeks later Judge Lewis Kaplan said he saw no issue with Carroll’s credibility and blocked the lawyers from asking about Hoffman’s funding.
Caroll is still embroiled in multiple legal battles with the president. Juries awarded Carroll millions of dollars in damages, which the president is appealing. Trump has appealed the $5 million sexual abuse case judgement to the Supreme Court and has pledged to do the same with the $83 million defamation case.
The Supreme Court has deferred its decision on whether to take up Trump’s appeal twelve times. The most recent deferral was made Wednesday morning.
In a different case, the president unsuccessfully asked for the Justice Department to join the case as a defendant so that he could argue he is immune from liability. An appeals court panel of judges said the argument was raised too late in the legal process.
CNN’s John Fritze contributed to this report.
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