Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, June 30, 1990 TAG: 9006300011
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON LENGTH: Medium
Moore denied a suggestion by Barry's lawyer that she trapped the mayor in the sting operation or that her motive for working with the FBI was because Barry had abandoned her for another woman.
Moore broke the FBI's instructions and tried to persuade the mayor to use drugs, she admitted under a second day of questioning by defense attorney R. Kenneth Mundy.
Midway through the FBI videotape of the sting operation, Moore asks the mayor if he wants to use drugs.
"No, not tonight," Barry replies on the tape. But Moore brings the subject back to drugs repeatedly after that.
"You felt you were going beyond your mandate not to persuade, influence, coerce or beguile" Barry into using drugs? asked Mundy.
"I did," said Moore.
Mundy suggested Moore had been badly treated by the mayor.
Was she angry at Barry because he didn't return her calls throughout an eight-month span in 1989, Mundy asked. No, Moore said.
Was she angry because the mayor was involved with another woman, Maria McCarthy, or because Barry had slapped Moore when they broke up their romantic relationship? asked Mundy.
No, she wasn't, Moore insisted each time.
Walking up to the witness stand, Mundy stood next to the former model and showed her a segment of the transcript of the recorded conversation.
The former model inexplicably shouts "Oh, Maria, Maria," just before FBI agents and police detective crash into Moore's hotel room to arrest Barry for cocaine possession.
"If there was no vengeance on your mind" why would Moore say such a thing? inquired Mundy.
"I have no idea," responded Moore, suggesting it was "out of nervousness."
Moore, the government's star witness in Barry's drug and perjury trial, testified previously that she and the mayor used drugs together "over 100 times."
Mundy is pursuing an entrapment defense, contending the mayor was illegally lured to the downtown Washington hotel room that ex-model Moore was staying in as part of her cooperation with federal authorities.
by CNB