WASHINGTON -- The Denver district attorney charged an Uber driver on Wednesday with two counts of sexual assault, accusing him of violating an unconscious 24-year-old woman and following her and a friend to their hotel room. The driver was classified as a contractor for the ride-sharing company, but has been removed from the platform pending the investigation. Uber promises that it screens drivers through county, federal and multi-state criminal background checks. A separate lawsuit against the company last month in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleges that the company...
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