Witnesses Testify Espada Paid Own Expenses With Nonprofit's Funds A videographer who was hired by former State Senator Pedro Espada Jr. to film a private birthday party testified on Thursday that she had been pressured by Mr. Espada's assistant to lie about the work she performed and claim in an invoice that she had actually filmed a public event. The videographer, Evelyn Lopez, said in the federal trial of Mr. Espada, who is accused of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars from a nonprofit health care network on his private expenses, that she filmed the birthday party of Mr. Espada's 1-year-old grandson in May 2007 and submitted an invoice to Mr. Espada that indicated as much. She later received an e-mail from Mr. Espada's assistant at the time, Norma Ortiz. "The invoice sent needs revision," said the e-mail from Ms. Ortiz, which Ms. Lopez read aloud from the stand. Please correct and e-mail to me a.s.a.p. In the e-mail, Ms. Ortiz asked that Ms. Lopez revise the invoice to indicate that Ms. Lopez had filmed a "children's community outreach" event, not a birthday party. Ms. Lopez replied to that e-mail: "The invoice is correct. The event was in a private home. Ms. Lopez's e-mail continued, "So as you can see, I cannot change the invoice (it would be dishonest)." Ms. Lopez was one of more than a dozen witnesses who testified on Thursday in Federal District Court in Brooklyn that Mr. Espada paid them for personal services with business checks from Community Expansion Development Corporation, which prosecutors said was a subsidiary of the health care network, Soundview Health Care Network in the Bronx. According to the indictment against Mr. Espada and his son, Pedro Gautier Espada, who is also on trial, the Community Expansion Development Corporation, a for-profit janitorial services company incorporated by Mr. Espada, became a full subsidiary of Soundview in 2006. The indictment charged that Mr. Espada and his son continued to operate the company as if it still belonged to the elder Mr. Espada, operating solely for the benefit of him and his family. An administrator at Preston High School, an all-girls" Catholic school in the Bronx, testified that Mr. Espada paid the tuition for Angelita Gonzalez, who prosecutors said was Mr. Espada's niece, with a check from Community Expansion. The chief financial officer of Huntington Learning Center, an after-school tutoring program, said his company received payment from the same corporation. An administrator at St. John's University, a lawyer who defended Mr. Espada in a libel case, an antique dealer and the ghostwriter who was to write Mr. Espada's memoir all testified that they had been paid with the corporation's checks. Lawyers for the Espadas have said that they were entitled to make the purchases and that they did not steal from Soundview. Donald MacLaren, the ghostwriter, said in an interview outside the courtroom that Mr. Espada had been motivated to write the memoir by a brewing rivalry with Eliot Spitzer, who was then the state attorney general. "He was afraid Spitzer was going to turn against him and it would turn into the same thing this is now," Mr. MacLaren said, referring to the criminal trial.