CLINTON TO PAY JONES $850,000 SETTLEMENT.Byline: Angie Cannon, Raja Mishra and Elsa Arnett Knight Ridder
Knight Ridder (IPA: /ˈrɪdɚ/) was an American media company, specializing in newspaper and Internet publishing. Newspapers Less than a week before impeachment impeachment, formal accusation issued by a legislature against a public official charged with crime or other serious misconduct. In a looser sense the term is sometimes applied also to the trial by the legislature that may follow. hearings are set to start, President Clinton settled the case that prompted it all - agreeing Friday to pay Paula Jones
Paula Corbin Jones (born Paula Rosalee Corbin $850,000 to drop the sexual-harassment lawsuit that has dogged him for four years. The Jones settlement does not include an apology from Clinton, which is what Jones said she wanted when she sued him in May 1994. Nor does the settlement contain an admission of guilt admission of guilt n. a statement by someone accused of a crime that he/she committed the offense. If the admission is made outside court to a police officer it may be introduced as evidence if the defendant was given the proper warnings as to his/her rights by the president. News of the settlement capped an extraordinary day of developments in the scandals surrounding the president. Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr
Kenneth Winston Starr (born July 21, 1946) is an American lawyer and former judge who was appointed to the Office of the Independent Counsel to investigate the death of the moved on two other fronts against Clinton: Starr obtained a new indictment against presidential friend Webster Hubbell Webster Lee Hubbell (born 1949), known as Webster L. Hubbell and Webb Hubbell, was an Arkansas lawyer and politician. He was a lawyer in Pulaski County before serving as Mayor of Little Rock from 1979 until he resigned in 1981. and sent new evidence to the House Judiciary Committee Judiciary Committee may refer to:
In settling the Jones lawsuit, Clinton resolved the case that has led to the impeachment effort against him - that in keeping his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky Monica Samille Lewinsky (born July 23, 1973) is an American woman with whom the former United States President Bill Clinton admitted (after initially denying) to having had an "inappropriate relationship"[1] while Lewinsky worked at the White House in 1995 and 1996. a secret from Jones' lawyers, Clinton committed perjury perjury (pûr`jərē), in criminal law, the act of willfully and knowingly stating a falsehood under oath or under affirmation in judicial or administrative proceedings. and obstructed justice. ``The president remains certain that the plaintiff's claims are baseless . . . the president has decided he is not prepared to spend one more hour on this matter,'' Clinton lawyer Robert Bennett Robert Bennett or Bob Bennett is the name of:
Settling the Jones lawsuit does not eliminate the charges against the president. But some Republican lawmakers have said that without the lawsuit in the picture, lying in a proceeding that stemmed from the suit may not be considered as grievous. Jones had alleged that then-Gov. Clinton asked her for oral sex in a Little Rock hotel room when she was working as an Arkansas state clerk in May 1991. For years, Clinton has denied her charges. Lewinsky first surfaced as a potential witness in the Jones lawsuit. Jones' lawyers said they raised questions about Lewinsky in order to establish a pattern of behavior. Then Starr began investigating whether Clinton had tried to influence Lewinsky to lie about her relationship with him. In a deposition in the Jones case, Clinton denied a sexual relationship with Lewinsky. Later, before Starr's grand jury, the president insisted he told the truth in his deposition, but did acknowledge an inappropriate relationship with Lewinsky. In his impeachment referral to the House, Starr accused Clinton of lying to that grand jury. It is that charge that many lawmakers consider the most serious against the president. A federal judge in Little Rock dismissed Jones' suit on April 1, saying that even if the allegations were true, Jones had not shown that her job had been harmed. Jones appealed, and lawyers for both sides made oral arguments before the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last month. Long negotiations As that court prepared to issue a ruling, both the Jones and Clinton camps have been negotiating a settlement. Jones had initially demanded $1 million and a presidential apology. Clinton's lawyers made it clear that there would be no apology. Bennett had offered $500,000 and then $700,000. But Jones rejected those amounts. Last week, Bennett rejected a $950,000 request from Jones' lawyers. For Jones, the settlement represents an end to four years of battles not only with Clinton lawyers but with her own legal teams. Her legal bills far exceed the settlement amount. It's unclear how much money she will actually pocket. ``This settlement brings to a conclusion four long years of seeking justice for Paula,'' said Rutherford Institute president John W. Whitehead, one of Jones' lawyers. ``The suit has raised a lot of important issues the American people and their leaders will have to deal with for years to come, such as the importance of protecting powerless women from workplace harassment.'' Both sides had strong reasons to settle the case before the appeals court issued its ruling. Jones ran the risk of ending empty-handed if the appeals court ruled against her. A ruling favorable to Jones would have left Clinton defending himself on two fronts - in the Jones case and in the impeachment effort. Starr's new material The House Judiciary Committee, where impeachment hearings are set to begin next Thursday with an appearance by Starr, had been waiting for any additional action from Starr. The new material from Starr about Willey does not accuse Clinton of wrongdoing wrong·do·er n. One who does wrong, especially morally or ethically. wrong  do , as the 445-page document Starr sent in September did. Instead, the new evidence from Starr permits the committee to decide whether to include Willey's allegation of an improper sexual advance in the impeachment inquiry. The new information sent to Capitol Hill included testimony of key witnesses and other evidence from the Willey investigation, which was not in Starr's earlier report. Starr had been investigating whether Clinton lied under oath when he denied making an unwanted sexual advance against Willey in the Oval Office in 1993. Starr also had been looking into whether other people, such as Maryland real estate developer and Democratic donor Nathan Landow, tried to intimidate Willey into changing her story. In a telephone interview, Landow said he has done nothing wrong and said he had not been notified by Starr's prosecutors that he is a target in the investigation. He declined to comment further. Clinton has adamantly denied Willey's allegations, which she detailed during an interview on ``60 Minutes'' last March. Last of the evidence In a letter to lawmakers, Starr said that this was the last of the evidence from the Lewinsky investigation. But he did not close the door on further charges against the president and encouraged the committee to release the new evidence. The new indictment against Hubbell has nothing to do with the Lewinsky investigation, but stems from Starr's original Whitewater investigation, which covered a complicated series of deals between the Rose Law Firm, where Hubbell and Hillary Rodham Rodham is an English surname which may refer to a number of persons or places. People Family of Hillary Rodham Clinton
A federal grand jury in Washington charged Hubbell with 15 felony counts of fraud, false statements, perjury and ``corruptly impeding'' federal banking regulators' investigation of many of the original Whitewater allegations. This is the third time that Starr has charged the former No. 3 Justice Department official and presidential golfing buddy of wrongdoing. If convicted, Hubbell could face a maximum of 110 years in prison and up to $4 million in fines. ``It is not normal for a prosecutor to keep on indicting the same person over and over again,'' said Hubbell's lawyer, John Nields. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1--Color) Paula Jones leaves the Westin Hotel in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of on Friday after it was announced that President Clinton had agreed to pay her $850,000 to drop a sexual harassment sexual harassment, in law, verbal or physical behavior of a sexual nature, aimed at a particular person or group of people, especially in the workplace or in academic or other institutional settings, that is actionable, as in tort or under equal-opportunity statutes. lawsuit. Suzanne Plunkett/Associated Press (2) Webster Hubbell meets reporters outside his Washington home after being indicted INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted. for the third time. Khue Bui/Associated Press |
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