Dale Young's Attorney Confirms that Lewinsky Described 'Intense Foreplay'
AP and CNN
6/29/98 Reporters
Dale Young's attorney confirms that Lewinsky described 'intense foreplay'
The attorney for Dale Young, a grand jury witness in the Lewinsky investigation, confirmed to CNN that his client told Starr's panel last Tuesday of conversations she had with Lewinsky about the former White House intern's claims of intimate contact with Clinton.
Attorney John A. Verdi told CNN that Young, 47, of Scarsdale, N.Y. who is a Lewinsky family friend, told the Washington grand jury last week that Lewinsky, in 1996, described a physical, intimate relationship with the president which "did not go to completion."
According to Verdi, Young told the grand jury "that was because Monica felt he didn't trust anyone to take it to completion" because he was concerned that the relationship would somehow be disclosed later and he needed to be able to deny that he was sexually involved.
Young, according to her attorney, had her first conversation with Lewinsky about the matter during a long walk the two were taking at the end of May 1996, at a spa. Lewinsky suddenly began talking to her about the subject.
She described the physical encounters as "something like intense foreplay."
While this description does not necessarily contradict Lewinsky's sworn affidavit in which she claimed she did not have a sexual relationship with the president, it raises more troublesome questions for Clinton.
At his deposition before Jones' attorney, the president denied a sexual relationship with Lewinsky, even after Jones' attorneys described "sexual relationship" to include "... contact with genitals ... with an intent to arouse the sexual desire of any person."
Young has been active in her local Republican party.
The White House says it will not comment on the story. Lewinsky's spokeswoman said she would have no comment.
CNN's Bob Franken and The Associated Press contributed to this report. In Other News Monday, June 29, 1998
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