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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A former special assistant to former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell is expected to return to the stand for the defense today.
Defense attorney Fred Orr was questioning Eunice Lockhart-Moss on Wednesday when the lawyer announced he wasn’t feeling well. U.S. District Judge Richard Story halted the testimony.
Lockhart-Moss told the jury Campbell never signed contract documents worth millions to United Water, a French-owned company that managed the city’s water system.
Prosecutors allege that Campbell extended United Water’s contract — worth about $80 million over the contract’s life — just days before he left office in December 2001. A handwriting expert for the prosecution testified last month that it was Campbell’s signature on contracts.
But Lockhart-Moss told jurors that Campbell refused to sign the documents before he left office and never saw them until six months later.
She said DeWayne Martin, the mayor’s former chief operating officer who often signed documents for the mayor, took the papers from her in December 2001 after Campbell had vacated his City Hall office. Lockhart-Moss testified that Martin told her he had “taken care� of the documents.
Lockhart-Moss said Martin, who often signed documents for the mayor, later told her: “I have just taken care of some people since your mayor doesn’t know how to take care of people who have helped him.�
Campbell has denied charges that he ran City Hall during his tenure as mayor from 1994 until 2002 as a criminal enterprise. The trial, which was expected to last six to eight weeks, is nearing the end of six weeks of testimony
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