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Example sentences for: perjury
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As had been tipped in earlier press accounts, the papers report that the majority counsel David Schippers outlined 15 possible grounds for impeachment, which augmented Ken Starr's list with new charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice and concealing knowledge of false testimony, replaced talk of perjury with talk of making false statements, and dropped talk of abuse of power.
The bad news: She says that he committed perjury (by denying that he had sex with Monica Lewinsky) and that his sexual exploitation of Lewinsky was "awful."
Perjury is a high crime because it is as bad as bribery.
1 Perjury vs. sex: Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr wanted the Lewinsky case to be about perjury and cover-up.
Starr, in short, fell into a perjury trap that no one had even set.