Hamilton County Commissioner Tim Boyd’s defense attorney wants East Ridge Mayor Brent Lambert to come clean about some campaign contributions he received in 2017 from local developers.
According to two subpoenas filed Tuesday, attorney Lee Davis is trying to get Lambert and the East Ridge keeper of records to bring any bank statements, phone records or emails related to those contributions to Boyd’s upcoming motion-to-dismiss hearing in Hamilton County Criminal Court. Boyd is charged with extortion.
Tim Boyd leaves court Friday after his arraignment hearing with Bradley County Criminal Court Judge Andrew Freiberg presiding. In his subpoenas, Davis seems to be homing in on three $1,000 donations Exit 1 developers gave Lambert in the summer of 2017, just days after the East Ridge City Council approved more than $4 million in bonds for an infrastructure project.
“Please provide copies of checks for any campaign contributions/donations written to the campaign of Brent Lambert from any real estate developer which includes but is not limited to John Healy, Ethan Wood and Matt Wood, or from any business in which they have an interest therein, from Jan. 1, 2017, to the present,” the subpoena says.
Davis also asked for a copy of a 2006 East Ridge ethics ordinance that says a city official may not accept gifts that “might reasonably be interpreted as an attempt to influence his action, or reward him for a past action.”