Mark Joyella | Mediaite
North Carolina television station WTVD-TV has obtained voicemail messages “purportedly left by John Edwards” that a former aide says prove Edwards orchestrated the cover up his affair with campaign worker Rielle Hunter. The recordings were turned over to a federal grand jury that’s investigating the former senator and presidential candidate.
Edwards has admitted to having an affair with Hunter and fathering a daughter with her. The affair began during Edwards’ presidential campaign in 2006. Hunter worked for Edwards’ political action committee, shooting behind-the-scenes video as the Democrat prepared to launch his White House campaign.
According to former Edwards aide Andrew Young, he and his wife Cheri lived a life “on the run” to keep news of the affair from the media. The voicemails, he insists, show Edwards checked in from time to time from the campaign trail:
“This was completely John Edwards’ idea, completely John Edwards’ plan and he systematically sold me, Rielle, and my wife on this,” Young said in January 2010.
“He was integrally involved in every aspect of this,” he said in 2010. “Everything that I did, in terms of procuring money, spending money or where monies went, was done at the direction of Fred and Ed – Fred Baron and John Edwards.”
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