The entire process is convoluted with the government case about Monica Lewinski and the Paula Jones sexual harassment civil case intertwined in many ways.
As typical of the Clintons, throughout the entire sordid event Bill consistently found sleazy ways to weasel out of final verdicts of guilt.
Bill was impeached in the House for a long list of various crimes including lying under oath to the Grand Jury and attempting to obstruct justice in the Paula Jones civil lawsuit.
Although the whole world knew he was guilty he was found not guilty in the Senate trial by a vote along party lines.
While that was going on the civil lawsuit that Paula Jones had filed against him for sexual harassment was working its way through the courts.
Shortly after his acquittal in the senate he was cited by a Federal District Judge for contempt for his failure to obey a previous court order to testify truthfully in the Paula Jones lawsuit.
He was fined $90,000 for contempt and the matter was bounced up to the Arkansas Supreme Court for possible disciplinary action.
Referring to Bill's previous deposition under oath that led to the contempt charge the judge wrote:
"Simply put, the president's deposition testimony regarding whether he had ever been alone with Ms. (Monica) Lewinsky was intentionally false,
and his statements regarding whether he had ever engaged in sexual relations with Ms. Lewinsky likewise were intentionally false"
In January 2001, on the day before leaving office, Bill agreed to a five-year suspension of his Arkansas law license and to pay a $25,000 fine as part of an agreement (plea bargain)
with independent counsel (Ken Starr) to end his investigation without filing any criminal charges for perjury or obstruction of justice.
As a result of his law license suspension he was also to be automatically suspended from the US Supreme Court bar to take effect after a 40 day grace period.
To avoid the court ordered suspension he resigned from the Supreme Court bar during the 40-day grace period.
Subsequently the court dismissed the Paula Jones harassment lawsuit on the grounds that Jones failed to demonstrate any actual damages.
Jones appealed the decision and before the court heard the appeal Bill Clinton entered into an out-of-court settlement by agreeing to pay Paula Jones $850,000.
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What most don’t know\remember...Clinton lied about lying.
For forever, he denied Gennifer Flowers - even on 60 Minutes where Flowers admitted a long term sexual relationship with him and provided tape records of their phone conversations.
From the transcript of his deposition he finally admits to Gennifer Flowers:
Q. Did you ever have sexual relations with Gennifer Flowers?
...a lot of blah, blah, blah parsing words
Q. On how many occasions?
A. Once.
Q. In what year?
A. 1977.
And nobody called him on it.
Thanks Vlad for that information.