OREGON
Oregonian
By Bryan Denson | bdenson@oregonian.com
on October 08, 2013
Shamont Lyle Sapp was an industrious inmate as he bounced between prisons from 2005 to 2011.
While serving a long stretch for 10 bank robberies, Sapp found time to falsely accuse four Catholic priests – in four states – of sexually abusing him, according to government prosecutors. Then he filed a lawsuit accusing the comic actors Jamie Foxx and Tyler Perry of ripping off his story as they put together a film project called “Skank Robbers.”
On Tuesday, the 50-year-old prisoner stood before a federal judge in Portland to take his lumps for filing a phony lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Portland.
“I plead guilty,” Sapp told U.S. District Judge Anna J. Brown, adding that he felt better now that he’d told the truth about his crime.
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