Dana Williamson claims she was only ‘helping a friend’ in $225K fraud scheme as lawyer seeks light sentence

Source: New York Post

An attorney for Dana Williamson, Gavin Newsom’s ex-aide who pled guilty to her involvement in a $225,000 scheme to steal campaign funds, claims she was only “helping a friend in a hard time” — as the disgraced Sacramento power broker seeks a light sentence for her admitted crimes. McGregor Scott, Williamson’s defense attorney, said she didn’t hatch the plan to skim thousands from ex-attorney general and Democratic frontrunner for governor Xavier Becerra’s dormant campaign fund into accounts she controlled. 3 REUTERS “This idea to take money from the Becerra account originated with Sean McCluskie,” Scott told reporters outside Robert T.