Troopergate (Bill Clinton)
Troopergate is the popular name of a scandal involving allegations by two Arkansas state troopers that they arranged sexual liaisons for then-governor Bill Clinton. The allegations by state troopers Larry Patterson and Roger Perry were first reported by David Brock in the American Spectator in 1993. The story mentioned a woman named "Paula". This reference was cited by Paula Jones in her sexual harassment lawsuit against the President, which was eventually settled for $850,000.
In his book, Blinded by the Right, David Brock claimed that in order to maintain a journalistic intergrity, he agreed to write the Troopergate article only if the four troopers he interviewed were not paid. In 1998, a conservative fundraiser admitted that he had paid the troopers $6,700 each after the articles were published. The payments were done behind Brock's back, so following the admission, Brock publicly apologized to President Clinton for his Troopergate story, which he stated was written not "in the interest of good government or serious journalism," but as part of an "anti-Clinton crusade". [1] In March 2005, trooper Patterson was convicted of lying to the FBI about an unrelated incident. [2]