Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Lawson/Nighbert Defense Rests Case
KENTUCKY....
After calling just six witnesses, defense attorneys rested their case Wednesday afternoon in the Lawson/Nighbert bid-rigging trial in Lexington. Neither Lawson nor Nighbert testified. On Wednesday morning Lawson’s wife Bonnie testified about the couple’s humble beginnings and a close friendship they have had since 2006 with Nighbert and his family. Bonnie Lawson testified she had surgery for the back problem at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., in March 2007 and her husband was with her at the time... one of the months when Lawson allegedly received the cost estimates in Kentucky. However, on cross examination, she admitted her husband was in Lexington the weekend of March 25th. Frank Scott, an economics professor at U.K., said he did not see “any pattern that … Lawson and Lawson companies were getting any inside information.” Under cross examination, Scott admitted he had been paid about $50,000 by the defense to do his research.
After calling just six witnesses, defense attorneys rested their case Wednesday afternoon in the Lawson/Nighbert bid-rigging trial in Lexington. Neither Lawson nor Nighbert testified. On Wednesday morning Lawson’s wife Bonnie testified about the couple’s humble beginnings and a close friendship they have had since 2006 with Nighbert and his family. Bonnie Lawson testified she had surgery for the back problem at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., in March 2007 and her husband was with her at the time... one of the months when Lawson allegedly received the cost estimates in Kentucky. However, on cross examination, she admitted her husband was in Lexington the weekend of March 25th. Frank Scott, an economics professor at U.K., said he did not see “any pattern that … Lawson and Lawson companies were getting any inside information.” Under cross examination, Scott admitted he had been paid about $50,000 by the defense to do his research.
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