Yesterday the Newark Star-Ledger tried to talk to Rielle Hunter’s old business partner Mimi Hockman (pictured), as I recommended almost two weeks ago. They approached Hockman at her home in New Jersey, but she wasn’t too cooperative. Which isn’t surprising at this point. Nor is this (emphasis mine):

Mary “Mimi” Hockman, who lives in South Orange, partnered with Rielle Hunter on Midline Groove Productions, the video production company that had a $100,000-plus contract to produce a series of videos for the Edwards campaign in 2006…

More information about Midline Groove was scarce yesterday. While the “webisodes” Hunter made following Edwards on the campaign trail are now getting wide internet circulation, the website for Midline Groove itself has been taken down.

Hey, whaddaya know, I just so happened to save a copy of midlinegroove.com. (How did I guess it might disappear one day?) There’s not much to the site. Just this logo:

Followed by this text:

Midline Groove is a full-service production company committed to projects that reveal truth — the authentic aspects of humanity that are right here and most often overlooked. Creating short and feature length documentaries for the web, broadcast, and big screen, the company was established in 2006 by producing partners Rielle Hunter and Mimi Hockman.

For more information, contact the production office

With a hyperlink that doesn’t work now, so I don’t know if it was an e-mail link or what. Followed by this logo:

That’s it. No pics, no other hyperlinks, no incriminating evidence of an illegitimate baby or surreptitious cash payments… nothing. The only thing notable about it, as far as I can tell, is that they named their company after the indentation in the middle of your upper lip. (Is that where the cocaine tends to collect?) That and the whole thing about “revealing truth,” which apparently is no longer a priority.

But now the site has gone down the memory hole, along with Rielle’s site, Bob McGovern’s resume and contact info, and who knows what else. If John Edwards is telling the whole truth, why does information about people who might be able to confirm his story keep disappearing from the Internet?

Well, mimihockman.com is still up. For now.

(Hat tip: Jane)

In other John & Rielle news: The Enquirer has a whole new mess of allegations. So far they’ve been doing fairly well on this story, so let’s see what Edwards has to say in response. If anything.

P.S. If you want to confirm the contents of the Midline Groove site for yourself, or you’re a New York Times reporter and you want to steal some more of my work with plausible deniability, the Google cache is here.

P.P.S. Maybe this is why the NYT can’t afford to do their own research anymore: Times Co. bonds are close to falling to junk status.

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