Camille Lee-Johnson, the only remaining JEA board member who voted at the July 23, 2019 meeting who has not yet testified at the trial of former JEA executives Aaron Zahn and Ryan Wannemacher, invoked her Fifth Amendment right 26 times during a hearing to determine whether she and two other witnesses would be allowed to testify in front of the...
– Camille Lee-Johnson, the only remaining JEA board member who voted at the July 23, 2019, meeting who has not yet testified at the trial of former JEA executives Aaron Zahn and Ryan Wannemacher, invoked her Fifth Amendment right 26 times during a hearing to determine whether she and two other witnesses would be allowed to testify in front of the juries at the trial.
Lee-Johnson had been the chair of the JEA board’s compensation committee in June 2019, when the committee approved a long-term incentive plan that was presented to the board the following month. In questioning Friday morning, Lee-Johnson confirmed she was on the board in 2019, and confirmed her position as chair of the compensation committee.
When prosecutors showed Lee-Johnson presentations from the June 18, 2019 compensation committee meeting, which she chaired, she said she didn’t recognize them, and that she didn’t know one way or the other if they were presented at that meeting. The subsequent question, where prosecutors asked if she recalled anything about that meeting, was one of the 26 instances where she invoked her Fifth Amendment right.
On Thursday, Lee-Johnson’s attorney had filed a motion outlining that she intended to invoke her Fifth Amendment right and asking that she be excused from being forced to appear in person to do so. The motion explains that in early 2020, Lee-Johnson was the CEO of a family-owned business that operates restaurants from Virginia to Florida.
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