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awakened the sleeping subordinate and directed her to give him his GTCC. The subordinate told
us that she thought it was “very odd” that MG Lewis asked for his GTCC and that she “felt like
something wrong was about to happen, but I wasn’t in a place to tell him, ‘No.’” MG Lewis told
us that he returned to the club with his female escort and used his GTCC to pay for the $1,755.98
in personal expenses because “I left [the club] with a big bill and they wanted to make sure I
came back and paid it.” He added, “It had to be put on my government card in order to have this
bill cleared.”
Hawaii and Malaysia, October 30 – November 7, 2015
Official travel-related conduct in Hawaii
MG Lewis travelled with the Secretary of Defense to Hawaii on official travel from
November 5-6, 2015. Witnesses told us that during this visit, they observed MG Lewis
interacting with a female enlisted Service member who was stationed in Hawaii, and with whom
he had previously served. The female enlisted Service member told us that she and MG Lewis
spent time alone in MG Lewis’ hotel room where they consumed alcohol. They then went to a
restaurant where they dined alone together and had more alcoholic drinks. After dinner they
joined other members of the Secretary of Defense’s travel delegation at a beach restaurant bar
where they continued to drink alcohol. Witnesses observed them alone on the beach adjacent to
the restaurant, with one witness stating MG Lewis had his arms on the female enlisted Service
member’s shoulders as they talked. Multiple witnesses told us that the pair then left the beach
restaurant bar together with another delegation member to go back to MG Lewis’ hotel room,
where MG Lewis and the female enlisted Service member consumed more alcohol. MG Lewis
told us that he consumed approximately 11 drinks that night over an approximately 7-hour period
and that the female enlisted Service member had a total of approximately 5-6 drinks over the
course of the evening. In his interview, MG Lewis acknowledged not being sober in the
presence of the female enlisted Service member and members of the Secretary of Defense’s
delegation in Honolulu during the events of November 5-6, 2015.
According to the female delegation member who accompanied MG Lewis and the female
enlisted Service member back to MG Lewis’ hotel room that evening, MG Lewis sent her (the
female delegation member) out of his hotel room on an errand to retrieve a work document. She
told us that when she returned to the room, she observed MG Lewis and the female enlisted
Service member embracing. The female delegation member told us that she asked the female
enlisted Service member to leave MG Lewis’ hotel room with her, and warned MG Lewis that he
was “being really stupid” and that the female enlisted Service member needed to come with her
and stay in her room that night. The female delegation member told us that MG Lewis then held
the female delegation member’s arm and physically escorted her out of his hotel room so that he
could be alone with the female enlisted Service member.
According to the female enlisted Service member, during their time alone together,
MG Lewis approached her closely in a manner that backed her into a wall and caused her to
believe he wanted some kind of physical contact. She told us that she believed MG Lewis
wanted to kiss her. She told us that she rejected his advance by physically blocking MG Lewis
with her hands and telling him it was time for her to leave. She told us that they did not have any