NASSAU, Bahamas -- As the third week of testimony in the attempted extortion trial of former Senator Pleasant Bridgewater and ambulance driver Tarino Lightbourne got underway yesterday, the jury saw videotape evidence in which Lightbourne acknowledged that there could be legal ramifications for negotiating the sale of a document he allegedly thought could implicate American actor John Travolta in the death of his son on Grand Bahama earlier this year.

"You know what we're both doing here is a criminal offense?" Travolta's American attorney Michael McDermott asked Lightbourne as he sat across the table from him in his room at the Sheraton Resort on Cable Beach on January 20.

"Yes," Lightbourne responded.

"Okay," McDermott said. " If we get caught, we're both in trouble."

"Yes," Lightbourne said.

McDermott, who claimed he was acting in line with a request from the Royal Bahamas Police Force to conclude a deal with Lightbourne, then told the ambulance driver, "You seem like a nice guy Tarino, but I really wish I never met (you)."

"I guarantee you. I put my life on this," Lightbourne said. "I guarantee you that (if) this comes out or comes up later, the lady here on the phone brought it up."

The "lady" Lightbourne referred to is Bridgewater, who McDermott called on his cell phone and placed on speakerphone at the beginning of the nearly 40 minute meeting.

Monday jurors also saw a videotape of a meeting that McDermott had in the same hotel room the day before with Bridgewater.

Photo: (L-R) Tarino Lightbourne walks to the Supreme Court Monday afternoon. John Travolta's Attorney Michael McDermott enters the Supreme Court Monday afternoon to take the stand. (Photo: Tony Grant Jr./Nassau Guardian)