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To: E who wrote (708)	3/4/2002 12:00:27 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 21057

The case that is closest to Clinton's seems to be Diane Parker's case. She was a postal worker who was fired and later went to jail for having sex with a subordinate and lying about it under oath. Not all the cases where about money or fraud but your right that cases where someone went to jail when the perjury or "making a false statement" charge was just about sex are rare. There are however probably more cases where people where found in contempt of court and had to pay a fine because of such statements but someone paying a couple of hundred dollars as a fine doesn't normally make the news. Also I am not suggesting that Clinton should have gone to jail over this, but it is is not unreasonable that he lose his job over this. I wouldn't go as far as some of Clinton's opponents and say that it is somehow a national tragedy that he did not get removed from office when he was impeached, but I don't think the impeachment was entirely unjustified. Tim