Both sides have now accused Chambers of lying under oath.
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Lying under oath means you could wind up in jail.
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Which means he is accusing Holmes of lying under oath.
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On top of that, lying under oath is a crime.
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Detectives also accused her of lying under oath, according to NBC News.
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L'Italien says Thomas committed perjury during the hearings by lying under oath.
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Lying under oath in a civil deposition led to President Bill Clinton's impeachment.
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Technically speaking, Stewart was not convicted of perjury, which is lying under oath.
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Lying under oath carries real criminal penalties; lying in a tweet, well, doesn't.
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Lying under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee, on the other hand, is.
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His department has no tolerance for an officer lying under oath, he said.
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Stone was found guilty of seven counts, including lying under oath and witness intimidation.
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He vehemently denies lying under oath and denies participating in any collusion with Russia.
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In 1998, President Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath and obstructing justice.
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Prosecutors ultimately accused Mr. Clinton of lying under oath, to cover up a sexual affair.
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Clinton allegedly abused his power by lying under oath about an affair with an intern.
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Henein accused the witness, whose name is under a publication ban, of lying under oath.
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He was convicted in 2010, but only of lying under oath, and has since been released.
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He was ultimately charged with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice.
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The subject matter is not what is significant here; it's lying under oath and obstructing justice.
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It's another to accuse them of lying under oath, which is what Trump and Kasowitz have done.
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Clinton was later impeached for lying under oath about his relationship with the former White House intern.
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Starr's report accused Clinton of lying under oath, obstruction of justice, witness-tampering and abuse of power.
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Court watchers and legal experts say Trump risks lying under oath or making misstatements in the interview.
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Even if Mueller can't charge Trump criminally, lying under oath is exactly what got Bill Clinton impeached.
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One was for lying under oath to a federal grand jury about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
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Letters TO THE EDITOR: President Clinton was impeached by a Republican-majority House for lying under oath.
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Others accused Mr. Sessions of lying under oath and called for his resignation and a criminal investigation.
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The affair led to Clinton's eventual impeachment for lying under oath about the relationship, among other statements.
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On Thursday, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi accused Sessions of "lying under oath" and demanded that he resign.
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Trump under oath in a depo is highly problematic ... remember, Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath.
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Jason Chaffetz has already indicated that he will ask the FBI to investigate Clinton for lying under oath.
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So to believe Trump, you have to believe Comey is lying under oath -- which is a felony. 703.
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Both are scandals that involved elaborate cover-ups, lying under oath, email deletion and loss of human life.
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Pruitt is one of five members of Trump's Cabinet who stand accused of lying under oath before Congress.
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He said he was "particularly troubled" by Clinton's lying under oath, and he called on him to resign.
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On Sunday, he accused the former FBI director, who the president fired last year, of lying under oath.
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"When it comes to lying under oath to Congress, recusal is not enough," DCCC spokeswoman Meredith Kelly said.
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Nadler noted that for purposes of impeachment, lying under oath is more relevant than the alleged sexual misconduct.
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The practice of "testi-lying"—officers lying under oath—is made much more difficult by the presence of video.
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Pruitt is under investigation by the Oklahoma Bar Association for allegedly lying under oath to Congress (aka committing perjury).
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He subsequently pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, admitting to lying under oath, in a deal with county prosecutors.
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Four Times journalist recalled covering the second of those three impeachments — that of Bill Clinton for lying under oath.
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President Trump accused the former F.B.I. director, James Comey, of lying under oath in his testimony before the Senate.
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Democratic House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, accused Sessions of "lying under oath" and demanded that he resign.
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The Clinton impeachment was relatively narrow but involved the president lying under oath, which is a clearly defined criminal act.
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There are more, but those are five key facts that -- unless you believe Comey is lying under oath -- are indisputable.
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It has been 21 years since President Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath and obstructing justice in 1998.
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CNN hired Andrew McCabe, who was fired from the FBI for LYING UNDER OATH... of course... that makes perfect sense.
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But if Cohen's lies as Trump's lawyer are one thing, lying under oath to a federal judge is quite another.
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But his understandable unwillingness to admit the sexual episode with Monica Lewinsky resulted in his impeachment for lying under oath.
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Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath and obstructing justice, but saw out the remainder of his second term.
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The former detective, Kevin Desormeau, 34, was convicted at trial earlier this year of lying under oath in a drug case.
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They opened the show with a sketch about Attorney General Jeff Sessions lying under oath while testifying before the US Senate.
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But unless they can dig up concrete proof that Clinton knew she was lying under oath, the probe might end there.
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I, therefore, charge you with 'lying under oath,' and if found to be true, that you be dismissed from the FBI.
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But he also said new charges could be filed against him if he violates his plea agreement by lying under oath.
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The fourth will be interference with a witness," he went on, adding that the "the fifth may be lying under oath.
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It was also the basis for the GOP-controlled House's impeachment of Bill Clinton for lying under oath, for committing perjury.
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At this point it's easier to list the Trump officials who haven't been caught lying under oath than those who have.
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The investigation led to Clinton's impeachment and later acquittal for lying under oath about his relationship with Lewinsky, among other things.
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After all, lying under oath in a case that originated from an extramarital relationship is what got President Bill Clinton impeached.
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"[A]fter lying under oath to Congress about his own communications with the Russians, the attorney general must resign," Pelosi said.
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The officer later appeared on a District Attorney's list of two dozen officers suspected of lying under oath, racial bias, and brutality.
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President Donald Trump on Friday forcefully accused former FBI Director James Comey of lying under oath in a series of defiant responses.
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I appeared in Congress with other experts to debate that question and maintained that lying under oath clearly was an impeachable offense.
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All of Trump's most recent predecessors had their controversies -- in the most extreme case, Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath.
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President Bill Clinton whipped up a firestorm with his pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich and was impeached for lying under oath.
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After all, the nation's top lawyer was accused of lying under oath about meeting with a Russian diplomat during President Trump's campaign.
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This past week, old acquaintances came forward to dispute his testimony to Congress and Democrats accused the judge of lying under oath.
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Mr. Stone was convicted of seven felonies, including lying under oath, presumably to hide information that might be damaging to the president.
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I am particularly troubled by the clear evidence of lying under oath in that it must be the bedrock of our judicial system.
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The opposition Democratic Alliance, for its part, is considering laying charges against Mr Zuma for lying under oath in relation to this report.
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The country's chief prosecutor had been caught lying under oath; his deputy was struck off the roll of lawyers for misleading a court.
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Burr added that he believes the new FBI inquiry would show that someone on Clinton's team, or potentially Clinton, was lying under oath.
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In a column for Slate, Roche accused Kavanaugh of lying under oath about his drinking habits and references in his high school yearbook.
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He testified over several days, smirking and scowling and, I believe, lying under oath about Mr. Rozelle having promised him an N.F.L. franchise.
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To the Editor: Judge Brett Kavanaugh disqualified himself for the Supreme Court — indeed, for any court — by lying under oath at his hearing.
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Mr. Cohen, who has pleaded guilty to lying under oath to Congress, among other crimes, said he did so to protect Mr. Trump.
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"[A]fter lying under oath to Congress about his own communications with the Russians, the attorney general must resign," said House Minority Leader Rep.
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The historical parallel: Bill Clinton was impeached (but acquitted by the Senate) for lying under oath about an affair with a White House intern.
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Generally speaking, it's bad for potential Supreme Court justices to not to tell the truth — and knowingly lying under oath is, of course, perjury.
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But it's notable because it suggests that there is some anxiety that Trump, who has a history of lying under oath, would perjure himself.
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Nobody has accused Dan Mallory of breaking the law, or of lying under oath, but his behavior has struck many as calculated and extreme.
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Charges are moved to civil courts: obstruction, collusion, treason, conspiracy, tax evasion, lying under oath, decades of cheating workers out of their paychecks. Unfair!
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"Now, after lying under oath to Congress about his own communications with the Russians, the Attorney General must resign," Pelosi said in a statement.
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President Trump on Friday accused James Comey of lying under oath to Congress in testimony that the president dismissed as a politically motivated proceeding.
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Stone was found guilty in December of lying under oath in what prosecutors called an attempt to shield President Trump from the Russia investigation.
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Obstruction of justice was one charge against Clinton, who faced allegations of lying under oath about his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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Pruitt is just one of five members of the Trump administration who stand accused of lying under oath before Congress — also known as committing perjury.
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Susan Collins: Israel should allow Omar, Tlaib to visit MORE's freshman-year roommate is accusing Kavanaugh of lying under oath about his college drinking habits.
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So, Don Jr. didn't even know that his dad dictated the statement -- unless he's lying under oath, which is a federal crime and, therefore, unlikely.
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"CNN hired Andrew McCabe, who was fired from the FBI for LYING UNDER OATH... of course... that makes perfect sense," conservative author Tim Young tweeted.
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As Republicans noted in the time of Bill Clinton's impeachment, lying under oath is still perjury when it is about sex or a salacious topic.
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In December 1998, the House impeached Clinton on charges of lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice in the Lewinsky case.
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Cohen has admitted to previously lying under oath to Congress about the Moscow project, when he said that talks had ended months before they really did.
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Meanwhile, officers who commit serious offenses, from stealing from the department to lying under oath to beating innocent civilians, are sometimes allowed to keep their jobs.
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The lifelong GOP political provocateur was found guilty in December of lying under oath in an attempt to shield Trump from the Russia investigation last November.
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So essentially the president is accusing Comey of lying under oath about both of these topics, and in the memos he wrote and distributed months ago.
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I testified during those hearings, as one of the constitutional experts, that President Clinton could be impeached for lying under oath, regardless of the subject matter.
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As everyone who followed politics in the 1990s knows, it was lying under oath about his affair with Monica Lewinsky that nearly took Bill Clinton down.
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The Jones case forced Mr. Clinton into a deposition that resulted in his impeachment on charges of lying under oath about an affair with an intern.
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Mr. Giuliani was referring to more typical obstruction cases, where prosecutors focus on measures taken in private, like bribing witnesses, destroying evidence or lying under oath.
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Sadly for him and the nation, that ended with his impeachment for lying under oath about activities that occurred both during and prior to his presidency.
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The last time was in 2010, when G. Thomas Porteous, a Louisiana district court judge, was impeached and removed for accepting bribes and lying under oath.
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The House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against President Clinton, charging him with lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice.
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The House had charged the president with perjury and obstruction of justice for lying under oath about his sexual affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.
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In October 1998, the House initiated an impeachment inquiry and Clinton was impeached by the House in December 1998 on charges of lying under oath and obstruction.
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Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath about an affair with an intern -- something that there is no evidence that the founders ever had in mind.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, among other Democrats, accused Sessions of "lying under oath to Congress," (some are using the word "perjury"), and called on him to resign.
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John Hyten of sexual assault, accused the general of lying under oath at his confirmation hearing to be vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Tuesday.
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When I testified during the Clinton impeachment hearings in 85033, I maintained that lying under oath is indeed a "high crime and misdemeanor" for the purpose of impeachment.
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However, when the trial of Tulisa fell apart in July 2014, not only was Mahmood exposed for evidence tampering, but Judge Alistair McCreath accused him of lying under oath.
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"You'll have one in the next few hours," Chaffetz said, after Comey told the chairman that a referral from Congress was needed to investigate Clinton's potential lying under oath.
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In a cover story for New York magazine earlier this year, Jill Abramson suggested that perhaps Thomas should be impeached for lying under oath about his conduct toward Hill.
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Democratic members in both houses ultimately insisted that lying under oath and in public about an affair with a White House intern was a personal, not an impeachable, matter.
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President Trump accused James Comey of lying under oath, and pledged that he would be willing to testify under oath to dispute some of the former F.B.I. director's statements.
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Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, asked the "smirking" Strzok whether he was lying under oath the same way he "lied" to his wife while he carried on an affair with Page.
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The resulting scandal, complete with all its vulgar details, rocked the country, eventually leading to Clinton's impeachment after he admitted to lying under oath about the nature of their relationship.
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"I think he had a giggly, stupid relationship with children that was misconstrued," Coccoz said, while Gastelo chastised Robson for lying under oath about Jackson's conduct during initial court proceedings.
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When Republicans impeached a President for lying under oath but now support a candidate who has yet to utter a single truth and who gleefully calls people pigs and rapists?
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WASHINGTON — Roger Stone, the GOP political provocateur and longtime confidant of President Trump, was found guilty of lying under oath in an attempt to shield Trump from the Russia investigation.
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But compared to today, the charges against the former president—lying under oath about his sexual relationship with Lewinsky and obstructing justice by hiding it from investigators—seem almost quaint.
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He also ran afoul of professional responsibility in rules for Oklahoma Bar Association lawyers for possibly lying under oath and violation of ethical rules associated with the practice of law.
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"Having just completed an investigation where I called the former FBI director 'insubordinate' and issued a report about the deputy director lying under oath," Horowitz said, waving his hand dismissively.
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Clinton's lying under oath during that questioning, in which he falsely denied having a sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky, led to Starr investigating the president for perjury.
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His investigation brought to light Lewinsky's involvement with Clinton, who was later impeached on charges of lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice in the matter.
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And unlike the impeachments of Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, this was not about something obscure like violating the "tenure of office act" or lying under oath about an affair.
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Sessions was later accused by Democrats of lying under oath after the Justice Department disclosed that Sessions had spoken twice in 2016 with the Russian ambassador at the time, Sergey Kislyak.
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The scene may be similar, but the allegations are radically different — lying under oath about sexual indiscretions versus using the power of the presidency to extract foreign help against domestic rivals.
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A Queens jury on Wednesday convicted a detective of lying under oath in a trial that raised troubling questions about the prevalence of false statements by police officers in routine cases.
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In the case of Roger Stone, Trump saw a friend of many decades going down for crimes including lying under oath and witness tampering that had been prosecuted by his administration.
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Mr. Clinton, a Democrat who was accused of perjury and lying under oath to cover up his affair with an intern, Monica Lewinsky, was impeached by Republicans and acquitted by Democrats.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday denied he tried to interfere with an FBI investigation, effectively accusing James Comey, the FBI's former director, of lying under oath to Congress.
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President Bill Clinton survived being impeached for lying under oath about sexual liaisons with Monica S. Lewinsky only after a Senate trial in which lawmakers opted against removing him from office.
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: "After lying under oath to Congress about his own communications with the Russians, the Attorney General must resign," she said in a statement released late Wednesday night.
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Clinton was impeached by the House for lying under oath and obstructing justice to cover up his affair with Monica Lewinsky, but was not convicted or removed from office by the Senate.
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Judging by polls, many Americans see the allegations against Mr. Trump as far more weighty than lying under oath about sex, although they remain divided sharply along party lines in their views.
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The House impeached Mr. Clinton in 1998 for lying under oath and obstructing justice to cover up his affair with Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern, during a sexual harassment lawsuit.
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Our current partisan polarization can be traced back to House Republicans' decision to impeach then-President Bill Clinton for lying under oath about his sexual relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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President Clinton was impeached in 1998 by the U.S. House of Representatives, which accused him of obstructing justice by lying under oath about a sexual relationship with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.
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And this display of politics and whatever involvement people we now see coming, his lying under oath like Clapper, people have had it that I know, FBI intelligence and of course law enforcement.
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Kasowitz issued a statement after Comey's testimony accusing him of lying under oath and suggesting he should be investigated for leaking information from memos Comey wrote about his private conversations with the president.
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But if they've been pardoned already for those matters, they're no longer at risk of incriminating themselves — so they'd have to testify truthfully, or risk new charges for contempt or lying under oath.
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It may be a sign Mueller does not intend to end his investigation merely by indicting people on the charges lying under oath, as some previous independent prosecutors of government wrongdoing have done.
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The Republican-led House approved two articles of impeachment against Bill Clinton for lying under oath to a jury and obstruction of justice in his affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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The approach is modeled on the war room used by President Bill Clinton during various inquiries, including one that led to his impeachment for lying under oath about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
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Starr accused Clinton of "an unlawful effort to thwart the judicial process," by lying under oath during a deposition in a sexual harassment lawsuit about his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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In October, Chaffetz introduced four articles of impeachment against Koskinen, whom Republicans accuse of lying under oath and destroying computer records central to their probe into whether the IRS targeted Tea Party groups.
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Moreover — note this forgotten fact — the partisan Republican House also rejected a finding of lying under oath by President Clinton even during the civil deposition of Paula Jones — by a 229-205 vote.
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In an interview with ABC, President Donald Trump accused former White House counsel Don McGahn of lying under oath when he told Robert Mueller that the president directed him to fire the special counsel.
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It was not just criminal cases that were problematic, it was private civil suits and depositions and allegations of lying under oath in a private civil suit with Paula Jones that led to impeachment.
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During depositions taken as part of a 2007 libel lawsuit against Trump biographer Tim O'Brien, Trump admitted to lying publicly more than 30 times in order to avoid lying under oath and perjuring himself.
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Trump accused Comey of lying under oath, questioned the existence and validity of McCabe's memos, and criticized Mueller by name for allegedly filling the ranks of his team of prosecutors and investigators with Democrats.
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On the one hand, many Americans have already made up their minds about Trump, and the testimony of a former aide who's pleaded guilty to lying under oath isn't going to change their minds.
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Even more disturbing is that so many of these and other actors were also caught lying under oath or to federal officials, behavior that indicates they knew they were doing unsavory if not illegal things.
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But if impeaching a president for lying under oath about sex was partisan overreach then, impeaching President Trump now, when not even that much legal wrongdoing on his part has been proved, would be absurd.
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Mr. Dingell's inquiries led to the criminal conviction of, among others, Michael K. Deaver, one of President Reagan's top advisers, for lying under oath regarding Mr. Deaver's lobbying activities after he left the White House.
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The independent counsel investigation into Clinton began with a land deal in Arkansas and eventually ended with a report recommending his impeachment for lying under oath and obstructing justice over his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
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After it was published, the study was retracted, the journal's editor stepped down, the Ohio State University professor who led the study resigned, and a judge accused the NSCA of lying under oath and withholding evidence.
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It didn't go particularly well for Republicans in 1998, when the House, led by Newt Gingrich, impeached President Bill Clinton for lying under oath and obstructing justice into the investigation of his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
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The Justice Department has accused him of lying under oath about making monthly payments, as well as his contributions toward the purchase of a 138-acre horse farm in 2013 and his daughter's wedding in 2014.
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Federal law makes it a crime to "knowingly and willfully" give "materially" false statements to Congress, even if unsworn -- which is not to be confused with the more general crime of perjury for lying under oath.
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PARIS (Reuters) - A French court on Wednesday convicted respected lung doctor Michel Aubier of perjury for lying under oath at a parlimentary hearing on air pollution about his two decade-long ties with oil multinational Total.
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It does not seem particularly likely that he is lying — especially since President Trump has already brought up the possibility that tapes of their encounter exist, lying under oath would put him in serious legal jeopardy.
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Shortly after sentencing President Trump's crony to more than three years in prison for lying under oath, Judge Amy Berman Jackson slapped down Stone's attempt to have her removed from any further consideration of his case.
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Republican lawmakers have accused Koskinen of failing to comply with a subpoena and lying under oath during a congressional investigation into revelations that the IRS had given extra scrunity to conservative political groups seeking tax-exempt status.
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It's literally Clinton, speaking before the Office of Independent Counsel Ken Starr about allegations of lying under oath during a sexual harassment lawsuit (involving Arkansas state employee Paula Jones) about an affair (with White House intern Monica Lewinsky).
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The impeachment of Clinton was initiated days after Biden's 1998 comments on CNN, and the House of Representatives formally impeached him for lying under oath and obstruction of justice in a largely party line vote in December 1998.
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The then 33-year-old Kavanaugh became a lead author of the 1998 Starr Report that detailed Clinton's sexual involvement with Lewinsky and laid out 11 grounds for Clinton's impeachment, including obstruction of justice and lying under oath.
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The then 13-year-old Kavanaugh became a lead author of the 1998 Starr report, which detailed Clinton's sexual involvement with Lewinsky and laid out 11 grounds for Clinton's impeachment, including obstruction of justice and lying under oath.
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Kavanaugh, who's spent more than a decade on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, has been accused of lying under oath in the past, particularly about his time in the George W. Bush White House.
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One of the two, Malusi Gigaba, is a former finance minister who was found guilty of lying under oath to Parliament and was a close ally of Jacob Zuma, the scandal-tainted former president who resigned last year.
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The Philly cop who arrested Mill in 22018 on gun and drugs charges was on the District Attorney's naughty list of two dozen officers suspected of lying under oath, racial bias and brutality, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported this week.
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The Philly cop who arrested Mill in 2007 on gun and drugs charges was on the District Attorney's naughty list of two dozen officers suspected of lying under oath, racial bias and brutality, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported this week.
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"There is plainly sufficient evidence to find willfulness, bad faith, or fault on the part of the NSCA in withholding the recently discovered documents and in lying under oath in the federal proceedings," wrote US District Judge Janis Sammartino.
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A court in Munich acquitted Jürgen Fitschen, one of Deutsche Bank's co-chief executives, on charges of lying under oath in a case related to the collapse of the media empire run by Leo Kirch (who died in 21991).
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Republican lawmakers have accused Koskinen of not complying with a subpoena and lying under oath during a House investigation into findings that the IRS had subjected conservative groups' applications for tax-exempt 501(c)(4) status to extra scrutiny.
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Regardless of the report's veracity, we already know that Cohen pursued the Moscow project through June 2016 but falsely told lawmakers that he'd wrapped up that work the previous January: Last November he pleaded guilty to lying under oath.
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As a result, residents of New York have almost no way of finding out which officers patrolling their streets have been accused of serious wrongdoing, such as assault or lying under oath, and whether they received any punishment as a result.
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That case, involving President Bill Clinton and Paula Jones, a woman he allegedly sexually harassed while serving as governor of Arkansas, ultimately led to Clinton's impeachment for lying under oath by denying he had sex with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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So if Trump is found to be lying under oath, the House would have to hold an impeachment inquiry and draft articles of impeachment and vote on them, first in the House Judiciary Committee and then in the full House.
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The inquiry into Mr Trump may be more justified—focusing as it does on the subversion of American policy, rather than on lying under oath about an extramarital affair—but Democrats from swing states and districts face a similar risk.
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The Navy notified the witness, Special Operator First Class Corey Scott, on Tuesday that it was considering charging him with lying under oath in the trial of Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, according to an email sent to the witness's lawyer.
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Representative Jamie Raskin of Maryland, a Democratic member of the Judiciary Committee, said the standard set during the impeachment of President Bill Clinton for lying under oath certainly puts Mr. Trump "in impeachment territory" because of the campaign finance issue.
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To conservatives reading this column, ask yourselves the following questions: If breaking the law (by lying under oath) to conceal an affair was impeachable, why is breaking the law (by violating campaign-finance laws) to conceal an affair not impeachable?
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The chairwoman of a powerful House committee on Thursday called for two members of Wells Fargo's board of directors to resign, and said she may refer its former chief executive to the Justice Department for lying under oath to Congress. Rep.
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Nadler's own words come back to haunt him Nadler was a prominent defender of Bill Clinton during the late 1990s when House Republicans impeached the former President for lying under oath about his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
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Mr Starr's investigation led to 15 convictions, and sprawled far beyond its original mandate, including into Mr Clinton's sex life, a turn which ultimately led to his being impeached in the House for lying under oath, and then acquitted in the Senate.
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In a CBS News Poll taken in January 255, 22016 percent of Republicans thought Mr. Clinton should be impeached for encouraging Monica Lewinsky, with whom he'd an affair, to protect him by lying under oath, while only 9 percent of Democrats thought this.
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In their initial sentencing memorandum, federal prosecutors said that Mr. Stone deserved a stiff sentence because he threatened a witness with bodily harm, deceived congressional investigators and carried out an extensive, deliberate, illegal scheme that included repeatedly lying under oath and forging documents.
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In June, Gilead was freed from paying up $200 million in damages for infringing two Merck patents related to Gilead's blockbuster drugs Sovaldi and Harvoni, after a U.S. judge found a pattern of misconduct by Merck including lying under oath and other unethical practices.
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Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark The Bronx district attorney's office will not say whether it was aware Lt. Paul Gaglio, an NYPD officer, has been accused of lying under oath or what if any impact that may have on criminal cases he was involved in.
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A Marine Corps major accused of lying under oath about having sexual relationships with two female midshipmen while serving as an instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy will enter a guilty plea for his upcoming court-martial, according to the public court docket. Maj.
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Gerhardt told The New York Times in May that it could be appropriate to impeach Koskinen for lying under oath if Republicans successfully made their case, but that Republicans could hurt their case if they focused more on the poltical arguments than the legal arguments.
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More likely, what the senator heard was the sound of the nominee himself erecting three new sets of goal posts untethered to questions of youthful sexual misconduct, all in easy range for Democrats aiming to score: injudicious temperament, naked partisanship and lying under oath.
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The Trump remarks that followed suggested those pardons were a prelude to some reprieve for Stone, who was sentenced Thursday after being convicted last year of lying under oath to Congress and threatening a witness, related to Stone's work on the 2016 Trump campaign.
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Stone, 67, was convicted of lying under oath to U.S. lawmakers about his outreach to WikiLeaks - the website that disclosed many hacked Democratic emails ahead of the 2016 election that proved embarrassing to Trump's Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton - to protect Trump from looking bad.
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In December 1998, the Republican-led House of Representatives voted to impeach a president for only the second time in U.S. history, charging Bill Clinton with "high crimes and misdemeanors" for allegedly lying under oath and obstructing justice to cover up his relationship with Lewinsky.
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"I think anybody who tells me that having just completed an investigation where I called the former FBI director 'insubordinate' and issued a report about the deputy director lying under oath — I don't think anyone can accuse us of pulling our punches on that," Horowitz continued.
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This seemingly simple question — the heart of the commissioner's defense against accusations that he misused the vehicle — threatened to engulf him in yet another scandal on Monday when two former senior correction officials all but accused him of lying under oath at a City Council budget hearing.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday found a pattern of misconduct by Merck & Co including lying under oath and other unethical practices, freeing Gilead Sciences Inc from paying any damages for infringing Merck's patents with its lucrative treatments for hepatitis C, Sovaldi and Harvoni.
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Republicans didn't like a lot of Clinton's policies, but in the end, believe it or not, the Republican-controlled House under Newt GingrichNewton (Newt) Leroy GingrichMORE impeached the president of the United States for lying under oath about a consensual act of oral sex with another adult.
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They tried to keep tabs on the case, texting one another and commiserating over a series of setbacks, including accusations of prosecutorial misconduct, the removal of the lead prosecutor and reports that the judge overseeing the case was being investigated on suspicion of lying under oath.
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David Caruso's ex-assistant says she went to the mat for him -- lying under oath -- and then he failed to hold up his end of the bargain, and exposed her to various forms of sexual harassment ... but Caruso says she's the one going back on her word.
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But whether the contradictions in Kavanaugh's statements fit the legal definition of willfully lying under oath, Democrats have been trying to make the case that Kavanaugh's credibility should be called into question — and that his temperament and truthfulness aren't as squeaky clean as his judicial record.
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It all culminated in an independent counsel investigation by Ken Starr, which in turn led to the moment when Clinton became only the second President to be impeached by the House of Representatives, in 1998, for lying under oath about an affair with Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern.
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When Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee earlier this month that Trump had once asked him for a pledge of loyalty and later pressed him to drop the FBI investigation into former national security adviser Michael Flynn, Trump accused the former top cop of lying under oath.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a June 2016 ruling that the two Merck patents, which cover methods of treating Hepatitis C, were unenforceable because of a pattern of misconduct by the company, including lying under oath by one of its in-house lawyers.
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If the cases require him to offer depositions, they could expose him to serious legal jeopardy if he is not completely truthful -- after all, Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath in the Paula Jones suit that originated with a relationship that occurred before he was president.
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On Thursday, a court in Washington is set to hand out a criminal sentence to Roger Stone, Trump's longtime friend and former political adviser who was convicted of lying under oath about his attempts to contact WikiLeaks about those hacked files in the midst of the 2016 campaign.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump used his Twitter feed on Monday to accuse his former personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, of lying under oath and said he should receive the maximum jail sentence as he praised another former adviser, Roger J. Stone Jr., for saying he would never testify against the president.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday accused James B. Comey, the fired F.B.I. director, of lying under oath to Congress, saying he would gladly provide sworn testimony disputing Mr. Comey's charge that the president forced him out because of his handling of the investigation into the Trump campaign's possible collusion with Russia.
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Franken, Minnesota's junior senator, has been a staunch opponent of Trump's platform and policies, and strongly questioned the president's cabinet nominees during confirmation hearings – namely, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who has just now come under fire for lying under oath in one such hearing about meeting with the Russian envoy twice last year.
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In a Washington trial that captivated the nation for months in 21973, Mr. Seymour prosecuted Michael K. Deaver, the former deputy chief of staff in the Reagan White House and a close friend of the president and his wife, Nancy Reagan, on charges of lying under oath to hide lucrative influence-peddling.
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"They've done phenomenal work, they've done it quickly, they've done it ruthlessly, and they've done it efficiently," said Solomon L. Wisenberg, who was the deputy independent counsel during the investigation that led to the impeachment of President Bill Clinton on charges of lying under oath about his affair with Monica S. Lewinsky.
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During the 13-month battle that stretched from 1998 into 1999 over whether Mr. Clinton committed high crimes by lying under oath about his relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky, Mr. Clinton's approval rating was generally in the mid-60s and even surged to 73 percent in the days after he was impeached.
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Louie GohmertLouis (Louie) Buller GohmertLouie Gohmert's exchange with Robert Mueller revealed an uneasy relationship Conservatives call on Pelosi to cancel August recess Mueller will be remembered for his weak testimony, not his shocking report MORE (R-Texas) accused Strzok of lying under oath — and then brought up the FBI agent's extramarital affair with his coworker.
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In 2012, a former police officer was convicted of lying under oath and filing false information to obtain a search warrant in an apparent effort to hide illegal vehicle searches, and a former sergeant pleaded guilty to lying in court about why he performed illegal searches of cars and an apartment, according to prosecutors.
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" Trump's comments came shortly after the "great new attorney general" he referred to, William Barr, hit back at Democratic leaders who accused him of lying under oath during his congressional testimony and seemed to threaten to investigate them, saying, "they may be concerned about the outcome of a review of what happened during the election.
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An already raucous hours-long Congressional hearing into FBI agent Peter Strzok&aposs apparent anti-Trump bias boiled over on Thursday afternoon, as a top Republican asked the "smirking" Strzok whether he was lying under oath the same way he "lied" to his wife while he carried on an affair with now-former FBI lawyer Lisa Page.
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If there is a hearing as the defense requests, they may now face questioning under oath, and they could potentially be fined or held in contempt of court for their actions, though experts said it's very rare for jurors to face jail time If caught lying under oath about their behavior, they could face perjury charges.
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Asked about the limitations, Senator James Lankford, Republican of Oklahoma, joked that "all of us are taking bets on Lindsey Graham," a garrulous lawmaker who spent the Clinton trial as an impeachment manager, making the case that the president should be removed from office for lying under oath about an affair with a White House intern.
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Obviously it&aposs taking longer because they are finding more that they need to cover, and I&aposm sure there will be a lot of salacious and interesting details as were already revealed with regard to Andrew McCabe when they detailed just one instance of him leaking to the media and all the lying under oath he did as it relates to that.
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Some of Trump's top GOP allies on Capitol Hill have accused Yovanovitch of lying under oath after revelations that she used her personal email account to communicate with a Democratic congressional staffer about a "quite delicate" and "time-sensitive" matter two days after the filing of the whistleblower complaint that launched the impeachment inquiry into the president, according to Fox News.
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Holding up a speech he said Mr. Sessions had given on the Senate floor during the proceedings to remove President Bill Clinton from office, Mr. Jeffries said Mr. Sessions had then justified his vote for removal by saying that he would not hold the president to a different standard than a young police officer he had prosecuted years before for lying under oath.
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After all, Bill ClintonWilliam (Bill) Jefferson ClintonBen Shapiro: No prominent GOP figure ever questioned Obama's legitimacy The Hill's 28503:22019 Report: Trump tries to reassure voters on economy 3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 MORE was found guilty of lying under oath in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit, but that was not a big enough smoking gun to get him removed from office.
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This has various elements, from Trump's repeated attempts to cast doubt on Russian interference, to the belief that the investigation had its genesis in Christopher Steele's salacious dossier, to the equally spurious idea that there can be no obstruction of justice without an underlying crime — a point that ought to be obvious to anyone who supported impeaching Bill Clinton for lying under oath about a non-criminal act.
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Among them is former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who was roundly criticized for what many view as his lying under oath before Congress regarding the NSA's illegal domestic spying; former NSA Director Michael Hayden, who secretly ordered his agency to begin that spying; and former CIA Director John Brennan, who purportedly ran the agency's program of targeted killing of Americans and tried to prevent the Senate from releasing its voluminous investigation into the CIA's torture program.
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Those episodes include: whether part of Comey's testimony in front of senators last summer amounts to lying under oath, the lack of cooperation from the Democratic National Committee in the investigation into the hacking of its server, the fact that Comey kept memos of his conversations with Trump, and the amount of money former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's wife, Jill, received during a campaign for the Virginia Senate from organizations linked to an ally of Hillary Clinton.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE on Sunday accused former FBI Director James ComeyJames Brien Comey3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 Barr predicts progressive prosecutors will lead to 'more crime, more victims' James Comey shows our criminal justice system works as intended MORE of lying under oath during questioning about anonymous sources.
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