Ms. Lee testified Thursday her donations weren't related to plans to obtain matching funds.
Covers on celebrities having plastic surgery, for example, used to be big sellers, said Ms. Lee.
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Ms. LEE: This is a company who prides itself as one of the foundations of the Internet.
It was unclear Thursday what salary, if any, Ms. Lee would be drawing from Mr. Liu's campaign.
Ms. Hou's attorneys have asked U.S. Judge Richard Sullivan to prohibit Ms. Lee from testifying about the solicitations.
Ms. LEE: We don't embrace the philosophy that there's good food, bad food.
Ms. LEE: The school division doesn't provide us funding through the general budget.
Mr. Liu hasn't been charged, nor has Ms. Lee, who has worked for Mr. Liu since graduating college in 2006.
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Because she rejected prosecutors' offer of immunity, Ms. Lee had to be subpoenaed to testify on behalf of the government.
"They're getting more aggressive letting homeowners know what's going on, " says Ms. Lee, a 38-year old who works for a food importer.
At a hearing in February, it emerged that Ms. Lee had been offered immunity by the prosecution in exchange for her testimony.
Of those contributions solicited by Ms. Lee, one donated to the campaign, but Ms. Lee didn't reimburse that donor, the government said.
Ms. Lee's title in the comptroller's office is research and liaison coordinator.
Ms. LEE: The habits that they have formed are not a result of something we have done or haven't done in school meals.
Ms. LEE: Kids are brand-oriented and they know that Pizza Hut is a quality product, and so we do use a lot of brands.
Unless you count Ms. Lee's cheesecake and Mr. Batali's decadent Babbo pastas as fitting into the health category, we've pretty much struck out here.
When told about the film, Ms. Lee, an avid and articulate historian, was pleased to learn her home was still the subject of historical interest.
On Thursday, prosecutor Justin Anderson asked Ms. Lee several times if she realized, at the time, that making an offer to reimburse donors was wrong.
Ms. Lee spent the day walking the flagship store's 1.1 million square feet of retail space to see which deals were drawing the best response.
He beamed as Ms. Lee counted down to the opening, when the doors swung open to admit hundreds of deal-seeking customers, many of them young.
Ms. Lee said her friends and family are not politically active.
Ms. Lee's attorney, Andrew Lankler, didn't return a request for comment.
Ms. Lee accompanied Mr. Liu to a mayoral forum Wednesday afternoon.
Her attorney said this week Ms. Lee didn't accept the offer because she wasn't part of the alleged scheme that is the subject of the trial.
Macy's ordered 6, 000 of the pillows for Black Friday this year after selling out its supply of 3, 000 at Herald Square last year, Ms. Lee said.
Prosecutors filed paperwork detailing how Ms. Lee said she contacted between four and 10 prospective donors and offered to reimburse some of them for their donations.
Those donations never occurred, Ms. Lee was never charged with a crime, and it was unclear whether prosecutors were considering filing charges following her testimony at trial.
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