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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever?

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To: jlallen who wrote (3805)	9/3/1998 9:56:00 PM
From: Doughboy	Read Replies (2) of 13994

JLA, happy to provide some examples of commonplace perjury, ripped from today's headlines: Carol Mosely Braun. Senator from Illinois. She had an embarrassing fiasco by traveling to Nigeria to praise Sani Abacha. In order to hide this embarrassing episode, a former boyfriend and her brother took the heat by saying that they was responsible for paying the tickets for that trip. Oddly, money passed from Mosely Braun's bank accounts in the precise amounts that the plane tickets cost. Not much illegality here except that M-B's boyfriend was stupid enough to fail to pay the travel agent for the tix and he skipped town. A civil suit was filed. M-B filed interrogatory responses DENYING that she had reimbursed them for the tickets and DENYING that she knew where her former boyfriend is now. Lying lying lying. But the judge recently quashed a subpoena for her testimony under oath, reasoning that this was a fishing expedition designed to force her to perjure herself. Charge her, her brother, and boyfriend for perjury? Mike Tyson: Car accident two days ago. He assaulted two men afterward in a rage. Civil suits and criminal charges being prepared. His wife and bodyguard have denied that he even touched the men (despite their having visible effects from meeting Tyson's fist). When they file those denials under oath as affidavits or in depositions, should we charge them with perjury? Bud Shuster. Congressman from Penn; head of Transportation Committee. It turns out that he spent several years without a home in DC; he was sharing a place with a former aide that was lobbying on transportation issues and is probably his lover. She has had to testify in Boston about her dealings with Shuster because of possible bribery relating to the Big Dig. She apparently pleaded the 5th on questions relating to bribery, but she denied a relationship with Shuster. Perjury? Michael Irvin. Dallas wide-out. Slashes teammate's throat with a razor blade in a "playful" fight. He denies to his probation officer that it was anything but an accident. Perjury? Obstruction of justice?

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