Mark LeWinter, who supervised Jeffrey Downs, the gay attorney suing Anapol Schwartz for defamation, testified Wednesday his trust had been “betrayed” when Downs told another firm leader to keep LeWinter in the dark about Downs’ threat of a lawsuit.

At the trial in Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Kenneth Powell’s courtroom, Downs’ ex-supervisor responded to questions from Downs’ attorney about the sequence of events surrounding Downs and LeWinter’s falling-out.

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