(Article by Tyler Durden republished from ZeroHedge.com)
After the recent Bib-Laden-esque operation against a former 65-year-old campaign advisor in the dead of night, President Trump recently opined, "If Roger Stone was indicted for lying to Congress, what about the lying done by Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Lisa Page & lover, Baker and soooo many others?"
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1089156621002002432
It's a good question, and as Rep Matt Gatez details below: "If lying to Congress is an enforceable crime, we are going to need more jails..."
https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1088895788946804736
And, here are a few people who’ve been found to have lied to Congress over the past half century or so, and what happened to them (via NBC News):
W. SAMUEL PATTEN
Under a plea agreement in late August, Patten, an American, Washington-based lobbyist, pleaded guilty to failing to register as a foreign lobbyist. The agreement revealed that in January, he “gave false and misleading testimony” — which included misinformation about his representation of a foreign government in the U.S. — to the Senate Intelligence Committee in its Russia probe. According to the agreement, after the interview with the panel, "Patten deleted documents pertinent to his relationships with the above-described foreign principals.” Under the agreement, Patten was not charged with making false statements.
W. Samuel Patten leaves the federal court in Washington on Aug. 31, 2018. Patten entered a guilty plea in federal court in Washington, shortly after prosecutors released a four-page charging document that accused him of performing lobbying and consulting work in the United States and Ukraine but failing to register as a foreign agent as required by the Justice Department.Jose Luis Magana / AP
Patten has not been sentenced for not registering as a foreign agent and had agreed to cooperate with Special Counsel Robert Mueller and federal prosecutors.
ROGER CLEMENS
Clemens, a seven-time winner of the Cy Young Award as a Major League Baseball pitcher for teams such as the New York Yankees and Red Sox, was indicted by a federal grand jury in 2010 for making false statements and perjury during his 2008 testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, when he claimed that he never used performance-enhancing drugs such as human growth hormone or steroids.
At the time, he faced a maximum of 30 years in prison and a $1.5 million fine, if convicted.
In 2011, an initial trial involving Clemens ended in a mistrial. The following year, he was acquitted of all charges.
H.R. HALDEMAN
Haldeman, who served as President Richard Nixon’s first White House chief of staff, was convicted, along with John Mitchell, one of Nixon's attorneys general, in 1975 of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury related to testimony he gave to the Senate Watergate Committee investigating the cover-up of the Watergate break-in at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters.
H.R. Haldeman, a former top aide to President Richard Nixon, testifies before the Senate Watergate Committee in Washington on July 31,1973.AP file
Haldeman was sentenced to a maximum of 8 years in prison, which was later reduced to one to four years. He wound up serving 18 months. Mitchell served 19 months in prison.
HARVEY MATUSOW
Matusow, an ex-Communist who had become an FBI informant, was convicted of lying to Congress in the 1950s after revealing in his book “False Lies,” that in testimony to lawmakers, he had falsely named 200 people as Communists or Communist sympathizers just a few years earlier.
He faced the prospect of a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and a $10,000 fine, but was ultimately sentenced to five years, of which he served 44 months.
CASPAR WEINBERGER
Weinberger, a former Defense secretary, was indicted on felony charges in 1992 for lying to Congress about his role in the Iran-Contra scandal during the Reagan administration, in which officials sold arms to the Iranian government to support militant rebels in Nicaragua. Weinberger was among a number of Reagan aides who were charged with lying to Congress, along with Clair George, deputy director of operations at the CIA, and John Poindexter, Reagan's national security adviser.
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger in Washington, D.C. in Feb. 1981.Bob Daugherty / AP file
Weinberger had been scheduled to stand trial, but before that occurred, President George H.W. Bush granted him and five other advisers involved in the scandal — including George — full pardons. Meanwhile, an appeals court reversed Poindexter's conviction.
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