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DEL.ICIO.USPotential contractor: Campbell asked ‘what’s in it for me?’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Dan Debardelaben, who is on the witness stand today, began his testimony before lunch. Defense attorney Billy Martin raised repeated objections to Debardelaben’s testimony, interrupting the witness 13 times in just in one hour.
DeBardelaben, once a close friend of Campbell’s, testified about a conversation he had with him at the Hidden Hills Golf and Country Club in Stone Mountain where the two were playing golf.
Debardelaben asked Campbell about doing computer work for the city. Campbell, he said, responded: “What’s in it for me?”
Assistant U.S. Attorney Russell Vineyard asked Debardelaben if he thought Campbell was joking. He answered: “No.”
Vineyard asked Debardelaben what happened next. Delardelaben testified that the mayor got on his cellphone and said, “Herb.” Debardelaben said that was all he heard of the telephone conversation. At the time, Herb McCall was the city’s Commissioner of Administrative Services.
McCall was found guilty in 2003 of perjury and obstruction of justice and sentenced to 21 months in prison.
In her opening statement, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sally Yates told jurors that DeBardelaben gave Campbell a cash bribe of $25,000, which DeBardelaben allegedly put in the trunk of Campbell’s car.
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