John Edwards, Andrew Young: Edwards Under Oath

To Show or Not to Show: It's not like John Edwards has been very good at coloring inside the lines on this subject

The SoapSaga Continues: John Edwards is scheduled to be deposed May 13 in the case of Hunter vs. Young. That’s Rielle Hunter, as in ‘Edwards’ former mistress’ and Andrew Young, as in Edwards’ former fall guy. What will Edwards say? Will he even show up? Up to this point, Edwards has not been guided by such things as morals, laws or the truth on this issue.

JOHN EDWARDS TO GO UNDER OATH

Andrew Young and wife, Cheri, have avoided ’30 days in the hole’ in their legal battle with Rielle Hunter, the mother of John Edwards’ love child, Frances Quinn. Now it’s time for the worm to turn.

John Edwards, whom Young has accused of pumping the money into Rielle Hunter’s court attacks against the Youngs, is scheduled to be deposed May 13 in the case of Rielle Hunter v. Andrew Young. Of course, Edwards–being a trial attorney–may or may not deign to show up and sit still for a deposition.

He knows that many embarrassing questions are likely to be posed to the former Dem presidential candidate by the lawyers of his former aide.

Young’s been spilling to Diane Dimond of the the Daily Beast over the last month: that’s where the info comes from.

The unemployed Hunter, mother of Edwards’ 2-year-old love child, got this embarrassing deposition ball rolling back in January and can’t seem to let it go. A team of high-profile North Carolina attorneys were brought in, widely believed to be paid for by John Edwards, to file an invasion of privacy suit on Hunter’s behalf. They demanded Young return the sex tape and other personal photographs she’d left behind during the cross-country odyssey to hide her pregnancy. Young described the tape in great detail in his bestselling book, The Politician, which outlines the senator’s self-destructive fall from grace.

Young appeared at all five hearings held in Superior Court in Hillsborough, North Carolina. He testified at three of them. Rielle Hunter never once appeared in court. Finally, Judge Abraham Penn Jones became satisfied that all her property (and all copies of the videotape) had been returned by Young. But for some reason Hunter continues to pursue the matter. Calls placed to her lead attorney, Wade Barber, have gone unanswered.

This may be the singular time in Hunter’s life when she’s been coy when asked to talk about herself.

Dimond goes on to detail that another unnamed witness is scheduled to be deposed.

So now the screws are being slowly tightened, according to court documents seen by The Daily Beast. Former senator and presidential hopeful Johnny Reid Edwards has been notified his deposition is set for “May 13, 2010, and the deposition of another witness on May 24, 2010.”

The piece speculates that this unnamed person is perhaps Elizabeth Edwards, who can’t be happy after reading Hunter’s smearfest in GQ magazine in February. According to Hunter, it’s Elizabeth’s fault that Hunter climbed into bed with a very married Johnny.

Hunter claimed that the Edwards’ marriage was ‘toxic.’

That may or may not be, but it’s hard to see how Elizabeth–who wouldn’t allow Hunter’s name to be spoken when interviewed on her last book tour–isn’t seeing red over Hunter’s GQ slams.

Young–through Dimond–reveals a clue to the mystery witness, however.

The Daily Beast can report while Mrs. Edwards may, indeed, be deposed at some point in this process, the next person on the list is someone who, according to a well-placed source, “knows a lot about Rielle and her past relationships with all sorts of men.”

Admittedly, this isn’t much of a clue: almost anyone personally familiar with Rielle Hunter “knows a lot about Rielle and her past relationships with all sorts of men.”

It could be several people from Hunter’s past: Mimi Hockman; Pigeon O’Brien; the woman described as “Wendy” in Young’s book, The Politician [not her real name by the way]; personal guru & hook-up driver, Bob McGovern; or, anyone who’s spent over an hour chatting up Rielle Hunter along the way.

Our money’s on Hockman–who also is unlikely to show.

What a strange court case: the ‘defendant’ is very reluctant to get her day in court.

The judge is mulling a Young motion to dismiss Hunter’s case, which would be the sensible thing seeing as how she refused thus far to be deposed.

Maybe Hunter will drop the case?

Maybe that topic will come up the next time Johnny rings up Rielle?

Maybe.

by Mondo Frazier
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