Perjury
 Perjury  (mendacity)   | |
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Perjury is lying under oath.
Contents
Legal status
Perjury is a crime in most if not all legal jurisdictions.
Variable penalty
The penalty for perjury varies widely according to the context, and it has been ruled not worthy of punishment, notwithstanding the logical difficulty this presents for the legal process as a whole.
Briggs Affidavit
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Arms for Libya
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Charles A. Briggs was a senior spook in the US intelligence community. He had, for example, served five years as Chairman of the Board for the Central Intelligence Retirement Association. As Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency, signed an affidavit that Edwin Wilson had set up the Arms for Libya deal without any knowledge of the CIA. After evidence surfaced 20 years later that this was a fabrication, and that Wilson had had at least formal 80 meetings with CIA staff, he was released and brought a counter suit. US judge Lee Rosenthal ruled that Wilson and his co-conspirators were immune from prosecution.[1]
Franklin child prostitution ring
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Paul Bonacci, a victim of the Franklin child prostitution ring, was indicted for perjury in 1999, but later acquitted and awarded $1,000,000 in damages. Alisha Owen, another victim of the same ring, was sentenced to 9-15 years for perjury after she testified in court, but served only 4½ years.[2]
Examples
| Page name | Description |
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| Richard Helms | US deep state actor caught lying to the US congress |
| Walther Kiep | Politician, financial fraudster, perjurer, attended 4 Bilderbergs from 1974 to 1980 |
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| Ludovic Kennedy | “the adversarial system of justice in the UK and the United States "is an invitation to the police to commit perjury, which they frequently do"” | Ludovic Kennedy | 2003 |
An official example
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| Carl Beech |
Convicted of Perjury
| Person | Born | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Cohen | 25 August 1966 | Lawyer Fraudster | A fraudulent US lawyer "who came out of nowhere to occupy a prominent spot in Trump’s orbit," found dead in 2021. |
References
- ↑ https://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Ex-spy-dealt-setback-in-fight-to-clear-name-1232806.php
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