Posted on 08/07/2004 12:10:47 PM PDT by HAL9000
A former Arkansas state trooper who said years ago that he arranged sexual liaisons for former President Clinton while Clinton was governor has pleaded guilty to a felony in an unrelated federal civil-rights case.Larry Patterson, 43, of Quitman, appeared earlier this week before U.S. District Judge George Howard Jr. and pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement to a federal agent, a crime punishable by up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
He is to be sentenced Oct. 26 in Howard’s Little Rock courtroom.
According to a court document, Patterson lied to an FBI agent who was interviewing him on March 9 about a Feb. 20, 2002, incident. The court document says that Patterson told the agent he "only shoved Shawn Luepkes, and he did not otherwise hit Shawn Luepkes."
By pleading guilty, Patterson waived his right to have the accusation presented to a federal grand jury.
A plea agreement filed in the U.S. District Court clerk’s office says Patterson "knowingly, voluntarily, and intentionally made a false statement to an FBI agent during an interview regarding a federal criminal civil rights investigation." Neither the document nor the standard 17-page plea agreement elaborate further on the facts behind the charge.
Kobie Flowers, a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D. C., said Friday that he could not comment. Patterson is being represented by Little Rock attorney Jack Lassiter, who also couldn’t be reached for comment Friday afternoon.
After leaving the state police, Patterson was the chief of police in Quitman for several years, but he resigned "three or four months ago," the town’s mayor, Lance Reynolds, said Friday. Reynolds said the resignation wasn’t forced and had nothing to do with the federal case.
He said Patterson has been off from work since he was injured in an accident about two years ago. The mayor said Patterson recently settled a lingering workers ’ compensation case stemming from the accident and then resigned.
In 1993, Clinton’s first year as president, Patterson was one of two state troopers quoted in an article in The American Spectator as saying they arranged sexual trysts for Clinton while he was governor. Five years later, a conservative fund raiser from Chicago said he paid the troopers, Patterson and Roger Perry, $6,700 each after the articles were published.
David Brock, author of the article, later apologized to Clinton, saying the payments to the troopers violated his understanding that they weren’t to be paid for talking to him.
Is that the same Lassiter, or a family member?
No, the other one is Lasater. Different spelling.
Thanks.
All those relationships out there are so "incestuous" who could have know!
If you are willing to HIT a girl, it seems like GETTING a girl for Slick willie's pleasure is a CAKE WALK.
I got the same impression from the wording, and clearly that is not what this is about.
The guy lies in an interview, not under oath, and is charged with a felony. Clinton lies under oath, repeatedly, and...oh, never mind.
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