NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Defense lawyers said Monday the star witness against two alleged financiers in the abortive plot to invade Dominica was trying to lie his way out of a stiffer prison sentence.  The attack on admitted ringleader Michael Perdue’s credibility came during opening arguments in the trial of Lodrich E. Matthews Jr., SA, of Florence, Miss., and James C. White, 30, of Lakeland, La.  Perdue, of Houston, has said Matthews gave him about $12,800 and White $45,000 to help finance his plan to lead a 10-man invasion force into the Caribbean island in a coup attempt.
 
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