Blasey went into that hearing knowing GOP senators probably wouldn't care what she said, that they'd hired a woman to interview her instead of speaking to her themselves, and that she would face a prosecutor while under oath.
But according to state prosecutors, Paterno testified under oath that McQueary had told him that he had seen Sandusky doing something of a sexual nature to a roughly 10-year-old boy.
In 1987, Mr. Miller defended Michael K. Deaver, Ronald Reagan's former deputy chief of staff, who had been charged by a special prosecutor with lying under oath about using his influence with the White House as a lobbyist.
"She also stated that at the time she told prosecutors this account, she was not under oath," the prosecutors said.
"It's important that every dollar of money he and his family had taken from the investors in this case be repaid," Judge Martin said Dec. 3, suggesting prosecutors question Mrs. Bennett under oath.
In a statement, NBC said Mr. Russert was interviewed under oath by prosecutors on Saturday.
The affair had been rumored for years in Collin County, just north of Dallas, but was confirmed only a year ago when Mr. Hood's lawyers compelled the judge, Verla Sue Holland, and the prosecutor, Thomas S. O'Connell Jr., to give depositions under oath.
BEHIND THE NEWS Prosecutors are investigating whether Mayor Kwame M. Kilpatrick lied under oath during a whistle-blower lawsuit when he denied having an affair with his chief of staff.
Prosecutors accused him of lying while under oath during those proceedings about how he made it into the country and by denying he masterminded hotel bombings in Cuba in 1997 that killed an Italian tourist and wounded 12 other people.
A Nassau County police officer was charged yesterday with initiating an improper sexual relationship with a woman cooperating as a witness in drug investigations and then lying about the relationship under oath, said county prosecutors.
