Current Events > Attorney for Roy Moore accuser offered $10,000 to say to Breitbart it was a lie

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Days after a woman accused U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual impropriety, two Moore supporters approached her attorney with an unusual request.

They asked lawyer Eddie Sexton to drop the woman as a client and say publicly that he did not believe her. The damaging statement would be given to Breitbart News, then run by former White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon.

In exchange, Sexton said in recent interviews, the men offered to pay him $10,000 and promised to introduce him to Bannon and others in the nations capital. Parts of Sextons account are supported by recorded phone conversations, text messages and people in whom he confided at the time.

The effort to undermine Leigh Corfmans allegations beginning on Nov. 13, a month before the election shows how far some of Moores most fervent supporters were willing to go to salvage an Alabama campaign that many hoped would propel a nationwide populist movement and solidify Bannons image as a political kingmaker.

In the phone conversations and texts, copies of which were obtained by The Washington Post, one of the men spoke of ties to Moore and Bannon while urging Sexton to help cloud the allegations, which included other womens claims that Moore pursued them when they were teenagers and he was in his 30s.

What theyre saying, all they want to do is cloud something, Gary Lantrip, who attended at least one private fundraising event for Moore, said during a phone call recorded by Sexton. They said if they cloud, like, two of them, then thats all they need.

Lantrip also made references to money at one point speaking haltingly about the the ten [pause] dollars, a shorthand for the $10,000 offer, Sexton said.

We got some chance to do something, make some quick little-bitty for you and then, on down the line, we can go to D.C., Lantrip said during the recorded call.

Sexton was initially reluctant to talk publicly about the alleged offer, because the men Lantrip and Bert Davi, business partners in a small construction firm are his clients in an unrelated court case, a dispute over a real estate venture. Sexton decided to speak publicly after repeated requests over months from Post reporters, who contacted him after obtaining one of the recordings.

so, they're going to prison, right?