US News/MSNBC: For John Edwards, an Unexpected Opening

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Hampton Dellinger is doing a good job covering the trial. This is a much more balanced story than most you see floating around. I expect the trial will show that much of what everyone "knows" about this case is wrong. Also, Young contacted at least three other witnesses about their testimony recently. Not yet allowed to call it witness tampering.

We are not here to debate whether a large amount of money flowed from Mrs. Mellon or Mr. Baron. We now know that it did. We are here to follow the path of that money, to follow the path, and the evidence will show that it ended up in the pockets of Andrew and Cheri Young and in the wood and in the stone and in the walls and in the roof of their $1.5 million house in Chapel Hill.

And with that allegation — essentially that Young, not John Edwards, sought hundreds of thousands of dollars from Edwards' wealthy political supporters and then kept it for himself — United States v. Johnny Reid Edwards was transformed into Edwards v. Andrew Aldridge Young.

[link:http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/23/11361101-for-john-edwards-an-unexpected-opening|