Hazel testified Thursday that he never declared Williams’ samples of Anatabloc on his financial disclosure form because “I never thought they had any value.” Hazel also said he spurned another Cabinet secretary’s request that he sit with Williams at a dinner at The Homestead. “I didn’t need to get the Anatabloc sale again — the anataboost, whatever,” Hazel said.

» Maureen McDonnell’s chief of staff, Mary-Shea Sutherland, depicted the first lady as a “nutbag” who was prone to rages at staff members. On Wednesday, William Burck, one of the first lady’s lawyers, asked Sutherland whether she had called the first lady “a screamer.” “Many of us said she was a screamer,” Sutherland testified. Asked if she had described Maureen McDonnell to prosecutors as a “nutbag,” Sutherland said: “Probably.”

» Paul Perito, the former chairman of Star Scientific, testified Friday that he was in the dark about Williams’ lavish gifts and loans to the McDonnells, until a sobbing Williams called him and came clean.