Microsoft office rape charge dismissed

Published 12:17 pm Friday, July 11, 2014

SEATTLE — King County prosecutors have dropped a rape charge filed against a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman working as a janitor in his Microsoft office in Redmond.

Attorney Todd Maybrown says the charge was dismissed July 3 after investigators learned the woman had previously falsely claimed she had been raped by an ex-boyfriend.

Maybrown told the seattlepi.com, Vineet Kumar Srivastava, 37, is trying to reclaim his life after nearly a year of being accused as a sex offender.

Srivastava said they had consensual sex last July in his office where he worked as a program manager for Microsoft.

Maybrown faulted police and prosecutors for failing to investigate the accuser to learn about her earlier allegations.