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Robert S. Bennett, Clinton's main lawyer for the case, called the filing "a pack of lies" and "an organized campaign to smear the President of the United States" funded by Clinton's political enemies. [6] In October 1998, Clinton's attorneys tentatively offered $700,000 to settle the case, which was then the $800,000 which Jones' lawyers sought ...
The Clinton–Lewinsky scandal was a sex scandal involving Bill Clinton, the president of the United States, and Monica Lewinsky, a White House intern. Their sexual relationship began in 1995—when Clinton was 49 years old and Lewinsky was 22 years old—and lasted 18 months, ending in 1997. [ 1 ]
In 1994, Paula Jones filed a lawsuit accusing Clinton of sexual harassment when he was governor of Arkansas. [5] Clinton attempted to delay a trial until after he left office, but in May 1997 the Supreme Court unanimously rejected Clinton's claim that the Constitution immunized him from civil lawsuits, and shortly thereafter the pre-trial discovery process commenced.
Controversies associated with the former President of the United States Bill Clinton and his administration (1993–2001). "Controversies" here means allegations of legal or ethical wrongdoing (such as the Whitewater controversy), not policy proposals that people debated heavily and thus were "controversial" (such as the Clinton health care plan), but would include lawsuits like American ...
Four women have accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual assault or harassment over the last few decades -- and one woman accused him of raping her. These are the sexual assault allegations ...
The impeachment trial of Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States, began in the U.S. Senate on January 7, 1999, and concluded with his acquittal on February 12. After an inquiry between October and December 1998, President Clinton was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives on December 19, 1998 ; the articles of impeachment ...
For the Clintons, those ups and downs have been more public than most anyone else in the country, the center of headlines since the 1998 Monica Lewinsky affair scandal, Bill Clinton’s ...
On October 8, 1998, in the aftermath of the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal and a month after the release of the Starr Report, which largely focused on the scandal, an impeachment inquiry was launched. On December 19, 1998, Clinton was impeached on allegations of perjury and obstruction of justice. Clinton was acquitted in his subsequent trial. [13]