the lawsuit, "jones v. clinton", was initially dismissed, whereupon jones appealed. in 1998, clinton settled with jones for $850,000, the entire amount of her claim, but without an apology, in exchange for her agreement to drop the appeal. meanwhile, the jones matter had begun a chain of events that led to exposure and instantiation of the lewinsky scandal. thus, arguably, state-level troopergate indirectly led to the federal impeachment of bill clinton.