Andy McCarthy

Carroll had so many holes in her story that she couldn't even remember exactly when the sexual assault she claimed had supposedly happened.

Well, to answer your second question, which is easier to answer, it usually doesn't work because the Justice Department doesn't have time or resources to manage the civil justice system.

As far as a perjury case is concerned, they're the cases that are among the most difficult to make.

Because even if somebody intends to lie to you, if there's, for example, literal truth in what the person says, even if the person intends for it to be misleading, you can't make a perjury case.

And on the other side of the coin, even where people say things that ostensibly could be taken as misleading, unless you can prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they willfully intend to

deceive you, you have no perjury case.

So perjury cases are highly unusual, and the Justice Department generally does them only when you lie to the government or you lie to the court in a case that the government's involved in.

This is in the deposition phase.

That's the lead up to the trial.

New York opened a window during the height of the Me Too fervor where they allowed what otherwise would have been time-barred claims.

By the time this was raised, it was about 25 years old.

I think the statute of limitations was probably two.

But they allowed these claims to be brought forward for a year.

So the first trial involved the sexual assault claim and one defamation.

And then we had the second trial involved two defamations.

I just looked in the last couple of hours at the transcript.

So she said that she was unaware of any funding.

And then what she learned evidently was that her lawyers had drummed up some funding from like a nonprofit group.

I don't want to say which one I think it is because I don't know that that's proven at this point.

And then the point is that they disclosed it to the other side when they realized that she had made a statement that was inaccurate.