Days before the Senate confirmed Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court last year, Sen. Christopher Coons (D-Del.) asked the FBI to look into sexual misconduct allegations against the judge that were just made public this past weekend, multiple media outlets reported Monday.

The Washington Post and CNN both obtained Coons’ Oct. 2, 2018 letter requesting that the FBI conduct an “appropriate follow up” with an individual who’d approached Coons with new sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh. Several women had already accused the judge of sexual assault.

The bureau didn’t take on Coon’s request in its investigation, and Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court four days later.

A spokesman for Coons confirmed to the Post that the individual who contacted the senator, whose name was redacted in the letter, was Max Stier, a classmate of Kavanaugh’s whose allegation against him is relayed in a forthcoming book by New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly.

According to an excerpt from the book that The New York Times published Saturday, Stier approached senators and the FBI with a story of Kavanaugh, then a freshman at Yale, pants down at a party while friends pushed his penis into the hands of a female student.