Inspector General

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Both MG Lewis and the female enlisted Service member denied walking on the beach
together. The female enlisted Service member acknowledged that they stood on the beach
together to the side of the beach restaurant and talked alone.
MG Lewis said that he consumed four or five beers, at least one shot of alcohol, and one
mixed drink while at the beach restaurant. He told us that the female enlisted Service member
consumed at least six drinks over the course of the evening. MG Lewis stated that neither he nor
the female enlisted Service member were “stone sober” when they left the beach restaurant. The
female enlisted Service member told us she had a “cheerful buzz.”
Two witnesses observed that the female enlisted Service member was under the influence
of alcohol or drunk. Three witnesses stated that MG Lewis was under the influence of alcohol,
drunk, or intoxicated. One female delegation member told us she “had stopped drinking pretty
early on at [the beach restaurant] once [she] realized that there was some odd stuff going on.”
This female delegation member was the witness that observed MG Lewis holding the female
enlisted Service member’s upper arms and shoulders on the beach.
MG Lewis, the female enlisted Service member, and the female delegation member
discussed above left the beach restaurant around midnight. The hotel was a short walk from the
beach restaurant. At the hotel, the female delegation member and the female enlisted Service
member stopped for a few minutes in the female delegation member’s room and then went
together to MG Lewis’ hotel room. 15
The female delegation member told us that shortly after she and the female enlisted
Service member went to MG Lewis’ hotel room, MG Lewis asked her to retrieve a work-related
“tri-fold” with the next day’s schedule. The female delegation member found the timing of the
request odd and also felt uncomfortable leaving MG Lewis and the female enlisted Service
member alone in MG Lewis’ room. However, the female delegation member stated that she left
the room to retrieve the tri-fold because she felt MG Lewis pressured her to do so. She said she
left the door ajar on the security hook as she left. She retrieved the tri-fold from her room and
immediately returned to MG Lewis’ hotel room, where she found MG Lewis’ hotel room door
closed and locked.
The female delegation member told us she decided to retrieve a key for MG Lewis’ hotel
room from the security control room. The security control room log confirms that she retrieved
MG Lewis’ hotel room key at 1:06 a.m. She then used the key to enter MG Lewis’ hotel room
without knocking.
The female delegation member told us that when she entered the room she had a side
view of MG Lewis and the female enlisted Service member “fully embracing” on the hotel room
balcony. She observed that MG Lewis’ and the female enlisted Service member’s “arms were
around each other.” She told us that MG Lewis and the female enlisted Service member
“disengaged [their] embrace” immediately when the female delegation member walked in. She
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They had determined previously that the female enlisted Service member would sleep in the female delegation
member’s room rather than drive to another location to sleep after drinking.