Officer Arrested / Was Paid To Claim Clinton Sex Trysts

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/story_Arkansas.php?storyid=20978

Former trooper admits he lied to federal agent
BY LINDA SATTER

Posted on Saturday, August 7, 2004

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." .....

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.