State Rep. Mark Patterson (R-Boise) had his permit revoked after the Ada County sheriff discovered the lawmaker had lied twice, in 2007 and 2012, on his permit application by failing to disclose a 1974 guilty plea for assault with intent to commit rape in Florida.
Patterson said the plea deal, which resulted in withheld judgment, was the result of a “bizarre encounter” with a 46-year-old woman he claims “fabricated the incident because she was angry that I would not give her money.”
The woman told police that Patterson, then 21, forced her to have sex twice by threatening to have his doberman pinscher attack her.
Patterson claims the woman admitted to a private investigator hired by his family that she’d made up the incident, and he claims his memory of it was destroyed by 2003 chemotherapy treatment for the hepatitis C virus.