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April 25th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda By Wednesday afternoon, Mr. Edwards’s lawyers will have their turn with Mr. Young, a former aide to Mr. Edwards, and the lawyers will attempt to discredit a man who spent the last two days revealing potent details about an extramarital affair by Mr. Edward and how Mr. Young and Mr. Edwards plotted to cover it up.
Mr. Edwards, 58, faces six counts of violating campaign finance laws and conspiracy. If he is convicted on all counts, he faces up to 30 years in prison and $1.5 million in fines.
All of the charges come from one central act: seeking to hide Mr. Edwards’s lover from his wife and the public. The question is whether nearly a million dollars from wealthy friends constituted campaign contributions and were thus illegal.
Although the weeks ahead promise much discussion of the ins and outs of campaign finance law, the opening week of the trial has been given over to a story that is as much cinematic as it is political.
In fact, Mr. Young wrote a tell-all book on his experience with Mr. Edwards and his 2008 presidential run. Aaron Sorkin, who created “The West Wing” and wrote “The Social Network,” has bought the rights and plans to write and direct a film based on the book, “The Politician.”
Throughout a full day of testimony on Tuesday, Mr. Young appeared tired and tense, but nonetheless polite, as he plodded through a slew of cellphone records, e-mails and Mr. Edwards’s own voice mails.
He did not look at Mr. Edwards, who often leaned forward in his chair, listening intently to his once-close aide.
The prosecutors are seeking to show that Mr. Edwards — who was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination for the second time — was the mastermind behind the crimes he stands accused of, and that Mr. Young was not lying.
Although much of Mr. Young’s side has been told, in his book and media reports, the details of Mr. Edwards’s affair with a onetime campaign videographer, Rielle Hunter, were riveting, spun out for hours in a courtroom while Mr. Edwards’s elder daughter, Cate, and his parents sat behind him.
Mr. Young, who has immunity from prosecution, testified that he received a call from Mr. Edwards when the former senator found out Ms. Hunter was pregnant. He said Mr. Edwards told him to take care of the situation.
“He said she was a crazy slut and there was a 1-in-3 chance that it was his,” Mr. Young said.
Mr. Young said that he and Mr. Edwards worked together to hide the affair beginning in the fall of 2006, when Mr. Edwards’s wife, Elizabeth, found out about it and demanded that Ms. Hunter be fired. Mrs. Edwards died in 2010 of breast cancer.
The plan, Mr. Young said, was to provide Ms. Hunter with an income and help her travel to see Mr. Edwards while he was on the road. Mr. Young said he and Mr. Edwards knew they would have to come up with a lot of money — and for an extended period of time — given Ms. Hunter’s fondness for expensive items.
“This was going to be a long-term problem, and Miss Hunter had good taste,” Mr. Young said.
Mr. Young said Mr. Edwards first suggested getting money from a former partner, Fred Baron, a lawyer and multimillionaire supporter, who has since died, and from a musician who played in the Dave Matthews Band, who was also a supporter of Mr. Edwards.
Eventually, Mr. Young said, they settled on Rachel Mellon, a banking heiress. She began writing personal checks to Bryan Huffman, a friend who was an interior decorator, who would sign them over to Mr. Young. Mr. Young’s wife, Cheri, would deposit the checks in the family account and give Ms. Hunter a monthly allowance of $5,000 to $12,000.
The Youngs became nervous about the arrangement, Mr. Young testified, especially when they got a check for $100,000. On the memo line, Ms. Mellon had written “Antique Charleston Table.”
At another point, Mr. Young said, a check arrived at the Young home with a note by Mr. Huffman: “A little table money for now. We will try to make up the differences soon. Go Edwards!”
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