Famous Perjury Cases

[The Straight Story]

1950: State Department official Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury for his testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee about his alleged Communist affiliations and was sentenced to five years in prison.

January 1, 1975: John N. Mitchell was a former United States Attorney General and director of Nixon's 1966 and 1972 election campaigns. He was found guilty of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and perjury during and was sentenced to two to eight years in prison. In 1977, the sentence was commuted to one to four years.

January 1, 1975: Nixon White House chief of staff John Ehrlichman was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, perjury and other charges. He was initially sentenced to between two and eight years in prison. He was released after serving a total of 18 months.

January 1, 1975: Nixon White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman was convicted of conspiracy, obstruction of justice, perjury and other charges. He was initially sentenced to between two and eight years in prison. In 1977, the sentence was commuted to one to four years.

December 1987: Michael Deaver, former aide to President Ronald Reagan, was convicted of perjury. He was fined $100,000.

1977: CIA Director Richard Helms was convicted of providing false information to Congress when he testified about the CIA role in the overthrow of Chile’s President Salvador Allende in 1973. It was a move that Helms had reportedly opposed. Helms received a two-year suspended sentence and a $2,000 fine. His fine was paid by friends of the CIA.

1999: The impeachment of Bill Clinton by the House of Representatives –- which was the political equivalent of a grand jury indictment -- included a charge that he had committed perjury in testimony about his relationship with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. The Senate found him not guilty of that charge on a 55-45 vote.

2002: NBA star Chris Webber was accused of lying to a grand jury about receiving money from a booster when he was a college star at the University of Michigan. Webber pleaded guilty in 2003 to a lesser charge, criminal contempt, and was fined $100,000.

March 17, 2005: Rap diva Lil’ Kim was convicted of three counts of perjury and one of conspiracy for lying to a federal grand jury to protect friends who were involved in a shootout outside a radio station.

2007: Barry Bonds is currently under investigation by a federal grand jury for allegedly perjuring himself in testimony before a grand jury in 2003 as part of the BALCO steroid scandal, in which he denied using any performance-enhancing drugs.

March 6, 2007: Former aide to the Vice-President Dick Cheney Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted of obstruction, perjury and lying to an FBI unit which was trying to investigate how a CIA operative's identity was leaked to the press.

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