Liars!

(CNN) — A retired prosecutor whose comments in a 2008 HBO documentary threatened to derail a 31-year-old sex case against film director Roman Polanski now says he lied.

When [Meg Whitman's] astonishing no-vote record was disclosed, she tried being slippery. She lied. She first told reporters she’d registered somewhere at some time and told them “to find it,” then lied again, declaring that she’d once been a “decline-to-state” party registrant. Later, one of her hired hands declared she “misspoke.”

Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis was forced to resign tonight … Then he lied about the staggering Merrill losses when, in fact (yes, it’s a “fact”), BofA could have walked, and then paid out and lied about the billions in bonuses that he suggests they were “forced” to pay. Whether they were contractually “forced” or not is immaterial, BofA should not have taken them on in the first place.

Bank of America and the Securities and Exchange Commission wanted the bank to pay $33 million — in shareholder money — to settle SEC allegations that BoA lied to shareholders about bonuses paid to Merrill Lynch executives. That was prior to when the bank, under pressure from regulators, merged with Merrill.

Judge Rakoff rejected the deal and ordered the case to trial Feb. 1.

He wrote: Those shareholders were “lied to blatantly.” The SEC contradicted its own policy by not pursuing charges against bank management or lawyers. And the proposed settlement was “a contrivance designed to provide the SEC with the facade of enforcement and the management of the Bank with a quick resolution of an embarrassing inquiry — all at the expense of the sole alleged victims, the shareholders.”

Broward County School Board Deputy Superintendent Michael Garretson contacted the Pulp this afternoon and had one very strong reaction to information filed in the federal complaint against School Board Member Beverly Gallagher.

“She’s lying,” said Garretson, shortly after he was interviewed by an FBI agent in his office today. “Obviously she took money from someone, and she made it sound like she did something with me, and it’s a bold-faced

A few weeks back, the responses from Apple and AT&T went public. Apple, apparently, had lied to the FCC, denying that it had ever rejected Google Voice despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

According to just released court papers tragic star Anna Nicole Smith’s doctor Sandeep Kapoor lied to investigators after they raided his Los Angeles home – by hiding her medical files below some shirts in his bedroom closet.

An ex-aide to Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards says he claimed paternity of Edwards’ ex-mistress’s child because he believed in him, lawyers said.

Former Missouri state Sen. Jeff Smith said in a letter published Tuesday that he was “stupid and wrong” to conceal his involvement in coordinating a political attack against Russ Carnahan in a 2004 Democratic congressional primary.

According to the Juneau Empire, the Alaska Retirement Management Board has filed suit to recoup losses caused by bad data it alleges that actuaries at Mercer Inc. provided knowingly — and tried to cover up — in order to avoid losing a state contract. “They lied to us for years,” said the ARM Board’s attorney in Juneau Superior Court, and later, “They were billions of dollars off.”

In its final arguments Friday, the state’s legal watchdog said Kwame Kilpatrick’s former lawyer clearly violated professional regulations by hiding his client’s perjury and trying to conceal the text messages that brought down the Detroit mayor’s administration.

In a statement to media, a Securities and Exchange Commission spokesperson alleged that CellCyte Genetics Corp. misled investors into believing the technology was headed for human trials when in fact the company’s product remained in the early stages of development. SEC officials allege stock promoters hired by CellCyte then spread the false information to investors, driving the stock price to $7.50-a-share before it plummeted back to less than a dime.

A detective for the New York Waterfront Commission was indicted on allegations he lied about cheating on a police entrance exam – by getting a copy of it from a former New Jersey Waterfront Commissioner. District Attorney Robert Morgenthau claims James Sutera failed the exam twice before posting the highest score ever recorded on his third attempt.

When a family-values politician has sex with someone other than his presumably family-values wife, he usually starts with the notion that the world revolves around him. Thus, Mark Sanford — who lied repeatedly about his extra-marital affair before getting caught — thought it necessary for the public to know about his efforts to “fall back in love” with his wife even though his Argentinean mistress was his “true love.”

Fallout from a sex scandal involving Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., now includes new allegations of an illegal cover-up.

A front page article in Friday’s The New York Times details allegations that Ensign helped aide Doug Hampton violate so-called revolving door laws by helping him get lobbying work with Nevada firms.

CNN’s Rich Sanchez launched into a nearly seven minute attack on Fox’s integrity and responsibility as a news network in response. Pulling in example after example of CNN’s coverage of the events, Sanchez hammered away at Fox relentlessly, citing even Fox’s own Bill O’Reilly’s complaints about CNN’s supposedly non-existent coverage.

And then Sanchez went for the throat: the image Fox used as the backdrop for their Washington Post ad came from footage from CNN’s observation tower.

From this, we learn two things. The first is that Glenn Beck believes in God. The second is that Glenn Beck lies. You’d hope those things would be mutually exclusive.

For the record and for the umpteenth time: No version of healthcare reform being contemplated by Congress mandates death for the old, the disabled or the infirm. That’s a canard. It is mendacity, prevarication, a bald-faced lie.

According to disgraced Republican assemblyman Mike Duvall, the affairs with two women, one of whom allegedly was a lobbyist for the Sempra energy company, never happened, and the only reason he quit the assembly yesterday (after being stripped of his legislative posts by colleagues) was to avoid being a distraction to the high-minded business of governance.

An internal investigation report released last week by the Tennessee Valley Authority Inspector General claimed a TVA employee lied during a probe into a land swap that involved U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, a Waynesville Democrat.

“We are surprised by how often parenting by lying takes place,” said study researcher Kang Lee of the University of Toronto, Canada. “Our findings showed that even the parents who most strongly promoted the importance of honesty with their children engaged in parenting by lying.”

–WKW