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We’ve learned that Bill Lockyer was sent a sex tape of his wife with Chikhani some weeks before the hotel incident. He concluded he was being blackmailed to allow their relationship to continue and went to Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, a friend, to try to get a stay-away order imposed.

Prosecutors declined, saying the relationship between Chikhani and Nadia Lockyer appeared to be consensual.

It was only after the Newark incident went public several days after it happened that O’Malley handed off the criminal assault investigation to the state attorney general. In addition to her personal ties to the Lockyers, O’Malley worked with Nadia Lockyer in setting up a domestic violence unit in the D.A.’s office.