Court documents in an ongoing felony case reveal new details about how employees were reimbursed for making campaign donations.

Real estate developer Timothy Lee pressured employees to donate to political campaigns in 2020 and padded a payment to a contractor to reimburse him for campaign donations, according to testimony before an Oʻahu grand jury.

The JL Capital CEO is facing nine felony counts of false name contributions — instances where named donors are not the source of funds to political campaigns. Prosecutors say he reimbursed employees for donations they made to the mayoral campaigns of Kym Pine and Keith Amemiya in March and April 2020.

Lee has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyers are asking for the case against him to be dismissed. They argue the facts in this case don’t amoun

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