WSB's Veronica Waters reports prosecutors allege Campbell committed "honest services fraud" when he signed and then mailed seven contract additions for United Water, the firm managing Atlanta's water system in 2001, because he failed to disclose the fact that the company had paid for his accommodations on a 1999 Paris trip. The alleged fraud is listed as one of the predicate acts supporting the racketeering count on Campbell's indictment.

Eunice Lockhart-Moss, Campbell's former scheduler, identified what she says appear to be several documents she was shown as staffers packed up their City Hall offices before Christmas 2001 as Campbell was leaving office. They are the seven United Water letter agreements which gave the company an additional $68 million to pay for its repairs to the city's crumbling infrastructure.

Lockhart-Moss testified that Greg Pridgeon, who was then Campbell's chief of staff, brought her the documents and said Mayor Campbell had forgotten to sign them. She rang Campbell on his cell phone, relaying that message to him in his truck, and asked if he would swing back by to take care of them.

Lockhart-Moss told the jury Campbell responded, "I have signed all the things that I'm going to sign as Mayor. There's nothing else to be signed." In a back-and-forth conversation through Lockhart-Moss, Pridgeon again insisted that Campbell had "forgotten" these and the Mayor again repeated his statement that he was not going to sign anything else. Lockhart-Moss says at that moment, chief operating officer DeWayne Martin came in, "reached around Mr. Pridgeon and took the letters, motioning like, 'Don't bother with her,'" she said.

At a later point, she says, Martin stopped her in a hallway at City Hall.

"I have just taken care of some people, since your Mayor doesn't know how to take care of people who have helped him," she testified Martin told her. She says she didn't know what he meant at the time. She and Campbell saw the letters six months later, she said, when an article prompted a caller to a radio show to ask Campbell about them.

The testimony comes one day after Campbell's former press secretary, Zee Bradford, told jurors that staffers "couldn't tell the difference" when Martin sometimes signed commemorative or other city papers on Campbell's behalf. Martin, she said, once discussed with them how well he could duplicate Campbell's signature. Lockhart-Moss, too, said she had seen Martin sign documents for Campbell during her three years at City Hall.

Assistant U. S. Attorney Phyllis Sumner objected when Lockhart-Moss began to testify that she, Campbell, and Martin soon thereafter met at the Mayor's home at Campbell's request. She also objected when defense attorney Fred asked the witness, "Did you ever hear DeWayne Martin brag about how well he signed the Mayor's signature?"

Last month, handwriting analyst Dave Moore testified that "the same author" signed both the United Water letter agreements and dozens of other documents prosecutors sent him to compare as "known" signatures of the Mayor. He acknowledged, however, prosecutors had not told him that others sometimes signed papers for Campbell.

The conclusion of Lockhart-Moss' testimony was postponed until Thursday morning, because Orr fell ill and went home early.

Judge Richard Story told jurors before sending them home for the day that he expected to be able to tell them Thursday how much longer the trial might last. Earlier, the defense indicated its "substantial" case would stretch into next week. They're not revealing the names or the number of witnesses they expect to call.

March 1, 2006