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Flight Attendant Says Condit Asked Her to Lie

Monday, July 02, 2001

By Rita Cosby


FOXNews Washington, D.C. - A flight attendant who said she had a long-term
affair with Rep. Gary Condit says the congressman asked her to sign a
declaration denying their relationship, and told her she did not need to
talk to the FBI following the disappearance of Chandra Levy.

Anne Marie Smith, 39, said in an exclusive interview with Fox News that she
refused to sign the draft of a declaration that was submitted by Condit
attorneys to her lawyers, and insisted the California Democrat knew the
document was a lie.

"Mr. Condit knew it was false and he was asking me to sign it and, I
personally could never have signed it," Smith said in an interview on
Monday. "I would never have signed it. And he was urging me to sign it, he
said you don't want anything, this could be personally embarrassing for
both of us."

Smith's lawyers on Monday evening supplied Fox News with a copy of what
they said was a draft of the declaration. They said the document contained
a note written by Don Thornton, an investigator who works with Condit's
West Coast attorney.

Jim Robinson, Smith's attorney, claims to have had a phone conversation
with Thornton in which the latter referred to the form as an "affidavit."
Robinson says the document is indeed an affidavit, as opposed to a
declaration, since it is composed of the specialized vocabulary of the
legal profession called legalese.

Lawyers for Condit said on Monday night they did not know of any such
document. Thornton spoke with Fox News and also denied any knowledge of the
form.

Condit lawyers have declined to comment on any relationship he may have had
with Smith.

Smith also said she told Condit she had spoken to the FBI about the Levy
case. "I left him a voicemail and I said, 'You need to call me, it's
urgent,'" she said.

She said he called back the next day, and that he did not respond well when
she told him what was happening.

"I said, I have been contacted by this agency, and I want you to know and I
said, you know, it was just a routine questioning, they said they would
keep my name confidential," she told Fox News.

"He was really upset with me, he said, 'Oh, I see how you are, I see what
you're doing.' And I said, 'No, you know, I've never been in a situation
like this.' ... He said 'You don't have to talk to the media, you don't
have to talk to anybody. You don't even have to talk to the FBI.'"

Smith reportedly told the FBI she ended a year-long romantic relationship
with Condit when she saw press reports about Levy, the missing Washington
intern, a source close to the woman told Fox News.

Smith said she has not spoken to Condit since one or two weeks before the
24-year-old disappeared. Smith also said she knew the California Democrat
was married and suspected he might be seeing someone else, but she didn't
know for sure.

Smith also said Condit told her he was "lonely in Washington," with his
chronically ill wife spending 99 percent of her time in California.

Condit has been the subject of much media and law enforcement attention in
the weeks since he "broke off his close friendship" with Levy. He broke off
the friendship only two days before she disappeared, the congressman told
investigators, according to Fox News police sources.

The congressman provided the new details about his relationship with Levy
in a second, hour-long interview with police, but stopped short of saying
whether he and the 24-year-old had a romantic relationship, the sources
said. Condit did, however, strongly hint the two had been lovers, the
sources said.

When Condit delicately broke things off with Levy with the explanation that
she was moving back to California, she was distraught, refusing to take no
for an answer and even becoming obsessed with him, the sources said.

Levy called Condit several times on a special line in the 24 hours before
she vanished, but he never returned those calls, the sources said.

Condit, 53 and married, has repeatedly said through public statements that
he and Levy were only good friends, with his staff denying there was a
romantic relationship.

Levy's parents, Susan and Robert Levy of Modesto, Calif., have hired former
Washington homicide detectives to scour their daughter's Washington studio
apartment for fibers, love letters, notes and any other clues that could
help them find out what happened to their daughter, who has not been seen
since April 30.




Fox News' Mike Emmanuel contributed to this report.

Fox News Network, LLC 2001. All rights reserved.


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