Daily News | Prosecutors wind down their case in Kenyatta Johnson’s bribery trial with a testy exchange with one of their witnesses
a Universal charter schoolteacher, a neighbor of a Universal-owned property at 13th and Bainbridge Streets, an FBI forensic accountant, and an expert on state ethics law, who said Johnson had attended a refresher course on conflicts of interest on Oct. 23, 2014 — a day after his wife had cashed her final Universal check.
For her part, Lewis — who as Universal’s chief marketer was involved in many of the same projects for the nonprofit that Chavous has maintained she worked on in exchange for her paychecks — said she misunderstood when she told the grand jury two years earlier that she couldn’t say what the councilmember had done.
Confronted with those prior statements Tuesday, Lewis said her memory was hazy and she hadn’t reviewed documents in advance that would have refreshed her recollection.As Dubnoff pressed her on why she hadn’t bothered to do so despite repeated contacts with federal law enforcement between 2018 and 2019, Lewis simply shrugged.
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