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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/27/AR2007012700282.html
Video Shows Coke Worker Taking Documents
By HARRY R. WEBER
The Associated Press
Saturday, January 27, 2007; 4:16 AM
ATLANTA -- A former Coca-Cola secretary charged with conspiring to
steal trade secrets from the beverage giant was caught on
surveillance cameras removing documents from her office last June,
sometimes late into the evening.
A Coca-Cola security expert testified Friday at Joya Williams' trial
that a handful of concealed cameras were installed at the
Atlanta-based company's headquarters to monitor Williams' movements
in different parts of the sprawling complex.
The surveillance video, played for the jury on Friday, was made after
Pepsi received a letter last May purportedly from a co-defendant in
the case stating that the person was willing to sell confidential
Coca-Cola documents and samples of products that Coca-Cola was
developing to the highest bidder.
The government has alleged that Williams stole the materials from The
Coca-Cola Co. and gave them to co-defendants Ibrahim Dimson and
Edmund Duhaney as part of a conspiracy to sell the items to Purchase,
N.Y.-based PepsiCo Inc. for at least $1.5 million.
Williams faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of conspiracy.
Dimson and Duhaney have pleaded guilty and are awaiting sentencing.
Williams' lawyer, Janice Singer, told reporters Friday her client
intends to testify in her own defense as early as next week.
The surveillance that Coca-Cola conducted of Williams is a key part
of the government's evidence against her.
Coca-Cola security expert Deborah Casey testified Friday that
surveillance cameras were running between June 7, 2006, and July 5,
2006, the day Williams was arrested.
Video images displayed in court Friday show Williams placing papers
in her bag, holding drink bottles in her hand, placing bottles on a
cart in a confidential document room and stuffing gift tote bags in
her personal bag. Some of the times she was removing materials
occurred at night, between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Under cross-examination by defense lawyer Singer, Casey said that
other video clips show Williams doing routine work at her desk,
making phone calls and carrying on her normal work day.
Casey also acknowledged that on June 27, when Williams is seen
removing a box full of documents from the building, the box is open,
and Williams walked past security with it. The lawyer is trying to
show there was nothing nefarious about what Williams was doing.
Also Friday, a Coca-Cola scientist testified that some of the product
samples that the three suspects are alleged to have tried to sell to
Pepsi were under development and had not been launched yet.
In other testimony Friday, an FBI agent who questioned Williams the
day she was arrested said Williams denied being part of a scheme to
steal or sell Coke trade secrets. The agent, Joan Cronier, also told
jurors that Williams denied giving any Coke documents to Dimson and Duhaney.
However, Cronier said she observed some Coke product bottles in
Williams' apartment that she had never seen before, and she asked
Williams where she got them.
"She said that those were collectors items and that everyone at
Coca-Cola took that type of stuff," Cronier recalled.
Cronier also said that Williams told her she hadn't talked to Dimson
for about a month prior to her July 5 arrest. Cronier said she then
told Williams the FBI had phone records showing she talked to Dimson
on June 20.
Cronier said Williams responded that "she didn't know anything about it."
Williams, who has pleaded not guilty, was fired from her job as an
administrative assistant to Coca-Cola's global brand director after
the allegations came to light.
Her former boss at Coke, Javier Sanchez Lamelas, testified Thursday
that he didn't believe Williams had the know-how to commit the crime
on her own.
The government is expected to wrap up its case Monday, prosecutor
Byung J. Pak told U.S. District Judge J. Owen Forrester on Friday.
The defense will then have an opportunity to present its case.
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