Hagan also said that Maureen McDonnell told him that the $50,000 check she received from Williams in May 2011 was a personal loan, for which she had signed a loan agreement and had been making payments to Williams.

The investigator said that at the end of the interview he asked the first lady to produce the paperwork for the alleged loan, to which the first lady said she had signed the documents and sent them back to Williams.

Hagan testified that Mrs. McDonnell did not know before the interview that she was under investigation. Hagan testified there were no bank records showing Maureen McDonnell making payments to Williams.

Testimony earlier in the proceedings suggested that the first lady and governor felt tricked by the premise of the interview, believing it was just to be focused on the mansion chef food theft case.

But Hagan said that the first lady never requested an attorney during the interview, although he said she got “a little more inquisitive about why we were asking about” the two checks.

McDonnell defense attorney John Brownlee returned to an email Hagan had written about using Williams as a potential way to dig deeper into the McDonnells’ receipt of cash and gifts.