Today is Friday, May 22nd, 2020.

On this day in 1998, Federal Judge Norma Holloway Johnson ruled that President Bill Clinton's secret service

would have to testify about the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Welcome to today in True Crime, a parcast original.

Due to the sexual nature of today's crimes,

listener discretion is advised.

Extreme caution is advised for listeners under 13.

Today we're covering one of the most infamous criminal investigations in American history,

the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

Let's go back to a Washington DC courtroom

on May 22, 1998.

Federal Judge Norma Holloway Johnson had made her decision. President Bill Clinton's secret service would be called to the stand.

The President's lawyers immediately began to scramble, thinking nervously back to Clinton's

statement three months earlier, as well as his denials

under oath, I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

It's one of the most famous quotes in American presidential history

so often repeated that it's become a meme,

but people often forget the details of the complicated scandal that preceded it.

President Bill Clinton's impeachment story began not in May 1998, but four years earlier in May 1994. Former Arkansas government employee Paula Jones

filed a civil suit against Clinton, claiming that he had exposed himself to her at a conference in Arkansas in

May 1991.

This lawsuit would set off a chain of events that neither Jones nor Clinton could have predicted.

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