An attorney for Dana Williamson, Gavin Newsom’s ex-aide who pled guilty to her involvement in a $225,000 scheme to steal campaign funds, claims she was only “helping a friend in a hard time” — as the disgraced Sacramento power broker seeks a light sentence for her admitted crimes . McGregor Scott, Williamson’s defense attorney, said she didn’t hatch the plan to skim thousands from ex-attorney general and Democratic frontrunner for governor Xavier Becerra’s dormant campaign fund into accounts