A South Korean court found former Gyeonggi Vice Governor Lee Hwa-young guilty of perjury for falsely testifying about being offered alcohol and food during a prosecution interrogation. The ruling impacts the Democratic Party's efforts to dismiss a remittance case against President Lee Jae Myung.
A regional court in South Korea found former Gyeonggi Vice Governor Lee Hwa-young guilty of perjury for falsely testifying about receiving alcohol and food during a prosecution interrogation. He was sentenced to four months in prison, adding to his existing sentence for an illegal remittance case.
Former Marine Corps 1st Division Commander Lim Seong-geun was sentenced to 18 months in prison for perjury related to the 'rescue lobbying scandal.' The court found his testimony denying meeting with a key figure linked to the First Lady and his claim of forgetting his phone password to be false.
The US Justice Department, via the US Attorney's Office in Chicago, has opened a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll for potential perjury related to her testimony in two civil lawsuits against Donald Trump, one alleging sexual assault in the 1990s and another for defamation in 2019.
Former US House Speaker Newt Gingrich considers the 1998 impeachment of Bill Clinton over the Monica Lewinsky affair a 'mistake', stating Clinton's perjury in a sexual harassment case was the more serious offense.
A verdict for former President Yoon Seok-yeol's perjury trial is scheduled for next week. He is accused of false testimony during the trial of former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo regarding martial law preparations. Kang Eui-gu, former presidential secretary, also faces sentencing on the same day for forging martial law documents.
Mark Fuhrman, the former LAPD detective convicted of perjury in the OJ Simpson trial, has died at age 70. He was a key investigator in the 1994 killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
