A controversial one-time aide to former Sen. John Edwards goes to court again today in Pittsboro, N.C., after a judge complained he was being untruthful about copies of a sex tape featuring Edwards and his one-time mistress.
Earlier, Andrew Young escaped jail time during a hearing, when Judge Abraham Penn Jones twice threatened to hold him in contempt of court. “I don’t like to be played,” the judge said sternly. “(Young) has submitted affidavits that are full of, to use a nice word, inaccuracies. I find it difficult to accept what has been said to me at face value.”
At issue was an order the judge issued in January requiring Young and his wife, Cheri, to turn over all videos, photos and documents related to the mistress’s relationship with Edwards pending the result of a lawsuit over who owns the materials. The hearing this week was the fourth in little more than a month held to determine whether the Youngs had complied.
Jones said he was concerned by the omission of a reported tape viewing, as well as a missing thumb drive to which Young said he had copied dozens of photos of a nude, pregnant Hunter and of Edwards with the baby. Also in question was whether Young had burned an additional DVD copy of the sex tape that had yet to be turned over, as well as a list of the names of 34 men penned by Hunter and titled “The Slut Club.”
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