LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - U.S. President Bill Clinton may be liable to a contempt of court citation for his testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment suit, a federal judge said. Federal Judge Susan Webber Wright said it was time for the court to consider whether Clinton was in contempt for admitting to an affair with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky after denying sexual relations with her in a deposition in the Jones case. Wright`s statement in a public filing suggested that Clinton`s legal troubles may not be over despite his acquittal on Friday by the U.S. Senate on perjury and obstruction of justice charges and despite settling the Jones case last November. Wright said she had raised the issue of possible contempt last September but decided at the time not to pursue it until the Jones suit was settled and until the impeachment proceedings against Clinton were finished. Clinton has admitted having an improper, intimate relationship with Lewinsky, although he says he was "legally accurate" when he denied having sexual relations with her in a deposition he gave in the Jones case in January 1998. Clinton agreed to pay Jones $850,000 to settle her sexual harassment lawsuit, in which she accused him of crudely propositioning her in a Little Rock hotel room when he was Arkansas governor and she was a state employee. Clinton did not admit wrongdoing under the settlement. Contempt of court citations can result in hefty fines or even jail time. Wright gave no indication of what the result of the citation against Clinton might be or when a ruling could be expected. Wright may not even make the decision, due to a legal twist that could result in another judge handling the matter. She said her law clerk had testified in the House impeachment proceedings against Clinton and that legal precedent suggested a judge should recuse in any matter where court staff had been a witness. Wright said she will hold a hearing on Friday with both the Clinton and Jones legal teams on whether she should recuse and leave another judge to rule on the contempt question. Wright`s order emerged from a hearing on Tuesday on rival claims by several legal teams who had represented Paula Jones at different times to the $850,000 settlement she received. Wright ordered the check deposited with the court within eight days for safekeeping pending a decision on how the money should be divided.