It means that if she had a sexual relationship with him PRIOR to his having been contracted by her for consulting a CLEAR PROOF of conflict of interests exists. IOW, corruption.
The whole debacle smells like week old fish. She was having sex with him prior, she did not get approval from the City Council to hire him, and she and he lied in affidavits and in their testimony. Further, there is no reasonable doubt that the other lawyers in the DA’s office didn’t know about it all AND they are complicit. The who DA’s office should be disqualified and the case thrown out with prejudice.
APPARENTLY, there was NO oversight about his billings & rate of pay