1.   Former MGM Inc. owner Giancarlo Parretti has skipped bail days before he was scheduled to be sentenced in connection with his perjury conviction in Delaware Superior Court.

2.   His three years in prison were for a perjury conviction unrelated to the subway attack.

3.   His perjury conviction resulted from testifying that Roy M. Cohn, as assistant attorney general, had coached him to lie.

4.   Perjury convictions do not.

5.   Similarly, in Kentucky, a federal appeals court last month affirmed the perjury conviction of Robert DeZarn, who was the adjutant general of the Kentucky National Guard.

6.   They are designed to get the president to incriminate himself and increase his vulnerability to a perjury conviction in a criminal court after he leaves office.

7.   With the guilty plea, Shahravan also forfeits her right to appeal the perjury conviction, Birdsall said.

8.   Perjury convictions should swiftly follow.

9.   A felony perjury conviction carries a maximum penalty of four years in prison.