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.
Here’s where the rest of today’s J&R updates will go:
- Bob McGovern’s daughter tells the NYDN:
“My dad was just driving her. She asked him for a ride, and he was helping her out, because she was in a bad situation.”
Is that why he rented the rooms, too? And wait a sec, didn’t Edwards say he was at the hotel to meet McGovern? So Bob was just the driver… to his own meeting. Weird. (Hat tip: PJ)
- Media Matters for America is outraged that the n-e-w-s sat on the John Edwards story for nearly three weeks. Just kidding! They’re mad that Rush Limbaugh made just about the mildest oral sex joke possible under the circumstances. Incidentally, this is the first time they’ve mentioned Rielle Hunter since December 19, 2007.
- Sean Carman at 23/6: “Why was John Edwards having an affair with a woman whose name sounds like something out of The Da Vinci Code?”
- If you want to read Jay McInerney’s interview with “seeker of truth” Rielle from the Jan./Feb. ‘05 issue of Breathe Magazine, which she reprinted on her site before it disappeared, click here. Money quote, about how she’s changed from her “Alison Poole” days:
“I still believe that telling the truth is a huge thing but not in the way that I thought it was then. It’s not insisting that everyone tell the truth, it’s how you get to the truth of who you are, your true nature.”
- According to the indefatigable Fortunate Son, beingisfree.org might not be the first Edwards-related info to disappear from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. One short year ago, Edwards was “harnessing the Internet.” Is he now muzzling it?
- Sales of McInerney’s 1988 novel Story of My Life, inspired by Rielle’s younger (wilder?) days, have soared since the m-e-d-i-a
brokeadmitted to the existence of the story. Reminder: I first told you about the McInerney connection on 7/28, and I got it from Sam Stein’s piece about it at HuffPo last October. But it hasn’t been relevant until now, I guess. - Fark: “URL = Unavailable Rielle Link”
- DBKP wants to know if Rielle has been editing her own Wikipedia entry. If so, at least we know Edwards hasn’t shipped her off to some third-world country without cable modems or WiFi.
- The LA Times keeps rockin’ with a profile of Lee Stranahan. And they note: “Fox News has a story today that includes the information about Young’s criminal record that Stranahan had in his Monday post. They do not credit Stranahan.” Imagine that…
- Overlawyered: “Where did Andrew Young get his money?”
- At one point Rielle and the Young family were living under the same roof. That would be Andrew Young, his wife and their three kids, and his purported mistress and her baby. All in the same house. Which Fred Baron was paying for. And Edwards knew nothing about it. And Baron didn’t know about Edwards’ affair. So the logical question is: How much do all these people spend per month on food for their seeing-eye dogs?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/08/12/2008-08-12_my_dad_didnt_rat_on_edwards_says_daughte.html
And Andrew Young’s mother-in-law chimes in. What a class act.
So the chick in the picture is this Mary Hockman? Before I read the post I thought it was Rielle and I was thinking to myself, I don’t know what she did, but she should keep doing it, it’s an improvement. But alas it was not to be.
The only politician I’ve seen with a real dynamite side babe was Nick Sarkozy.
LOL Rocko, GMTA. Why did Silky Pony pick the Rielle chick when Mimi is way much hotter? Oh right, “the gays” don’t like women who are prettier than they.
Mary Hockman, Mary Hockman…
from the NY Daily news
****Another Hunter associate, Mimi Hockman of New Jersey, has shrugged off questions from reporters, claiming she is “contractually prohibited” from talking. Hockman, who was Hunter’s partner in a production company that made Web videos for Edwards, refused to say whom the contract was with or what it was for. ****
God Damn, just change Deceiver.com to AllEdwardsAllTheTime.com and call it a day.
Edwards finally does something remotely interesting … who here hasn’t boinked a looney tunes, over-the-hill (yet still fertile) horseface? Lemme see those hands!
Yes, the coverup continues long after the admission.
I first noticed Midline Groove was down on August 11, 2008.
The site included a light blue background with a pair of silhouetted pursed lips, prominently displaying the midline groove, a laymen’s term that cosmetic physicians use for the philtrum, the center space immediately above your upper lip.
Many on the internet have speculated that John Edwards overuse of Botox is the reason the upper half of his face seemed curiously immovable in his ‘confession’.
I’m not sure I would read much into her ‘contractually bound’ statement.
If she was prevented by contract from discussing it, the contract would probably prevent that also, plus it would be the first thing out of her mouth when she saw the press.
After all, she’s had almost a year to get ready for the arrival of the press, wouldn’t she have prepared herself for what to say?
She could’ve just walked inside, saw the press didn’t leave, have a family member write out a one sentence statement on a piece of scrap paper, sign it, and her statement would still be accurate.
Inside Edition offers an ancient photo of a very different looking Rielle Hunter, most likely supplied by her sister Roxanne Marshall.
Either the “cocaine-addled” years and “drug use from the eighties” have destroyed her face, or she had a traumatic incident, because it appears to be a completely different person.
http://i34.tinypic.com/2vuj32q.jpg
Here’s something from Mimi’s site.
Apparently the professional party girl (probably did her practicum at Nells) also organizes baby showers.
Mimi Hockman has been planning parties and events the whole of her adult career. The list includes film premieres, fragrance launches, openings for commercial office space, art galleries, and gourmet sandwich shops, team building and management events, weddings and hen nights, anniversaries, birthdays and baby showers. Additionally, she has written for film, food and interior design magazines, styled photo shoots and set decorated films.
^^^^ Would definitely hit it.
I wonder if anyone is asking those folks at Internet Archive, creaters of the Internet Wayback Machine and renters of space from the Presidio, a taxpayer funded Federal Enclave, who contacted them and asked them to take down Rielle Hunter’s website (twice).
It appears that Edwards has a history with the Internet Wayback Machine.
When Nashville Journalist and communications director for the Tennessee
Republican Party, Bill Hobbs reported this:
Any reference to it seems to have magically disappeared also.
Sounds like the folks at Internet Archive have a long history of white washing the backgrounds of Democratic presidential aspirants… or have they laundered the history of many presidential candidates, without regard to affiliation?
Enquiring minds want to know!
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08132008/news/nationalnews/edwards_told_wife_slowly__of_affair_124306.htm
I just had lunch, if I laugh any harder I’m going to lose it. So now JE supposedly told EE of his affair in “installments”…is that like how I pay my Master Card bill? I guess telling her that he’s the father of the will be the last payoff. , I have a script to write, but this is just too delicious.
Sorry, that he’s the father of the baby will be the last payoff…I was laughing too hard.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/08/13/2008-08-13_elizabeth_edwards_learned_of_johns_affai.html
Apparently EE thought JE’s phony confession would stem the tide, instead it’s done the opposite.
More NY Post news (searching off of PJ’s link:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08132008/news/nationalnews/edwards_scandals_new_tryst_124236.htm
Now Learjet is a brand of aircraft, not a generic aircraft, and Bombardier purchased them in 1990, so those searching international flight plans might look for both names, (assuming the Post is not using the term generically).
Now where does John Edwards have a lot of international contacts? Or is it Fred Baron’s international contacts?
Are there asbestos lawsuit industries active in other countries too?
Knowing Rielle Hunter, she wouldn’t agree to a third world country, unless it was India and she could practice Yoga with a well known guru there. Otherwise third world would be beneath her, so if she had her choice it would be Europe somewhere.
She’s probably got red or black hair now and dark sunglasses, but she’ll show up.
Young kids and moms need medical care, so it probably wouldn’t be anywhere too far from advanced medicine, and she would never agree to be separated from the child.
John Edwards is probably ‘blind’ on this issue as to have plausible deniability, while Fred Baron is probably still acting as puppet master.
Plaintiff’s lawyers employ a lot of private detectives, and if I was to guess, I’d guess that these steps were being carried out by a private detective agency that has worked for Fred Baron before.
Maybe Edwards/Baron have decided to follow my “How to hide your mistress” steps from August 7 (http://deceiver.com/2008/08/07/john-edwards-actually-used-to-like-the-internet/#comments) and have moved her to a non english speaking country.
Anytime you move your aircraft though, there’s a paper trail. Unless you use a Russian company run by a guy named Viktor.
I’d probably pick the Van Nuys airport to get her out of there , and I’d pick a company that was run by an ex military man who could keep his mouth shut.
I’d pick a local company so there wasn’t a record of aircraft leaving from Dallas or Raleigh, as there wasn’t time to set up a round trip originating from country of destination (say France to LAX to France).
(http://www.labusinessjournal.com/article.asp?aID=93839264.98708703.1605409.4692303.2877248.618&page=1)
http://www.theinsider.com/news/1125460_Today_on_the_Rielle_Hunter_John_Edwards_Front_...
Now RH is an actress too…
Fred Baron now claims that he moved Young and Hunter, gave them money, but didn’t know about the affair until a few weeks ago…
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/100/story/125014.html
The former campaign finance chairman for John Edwards said this morning he was unaware of Edwards’ affair with campaign videographer Rielle Hunter when he paid to move her to California last year.
In an e-mail this morning to The News & Observer, Dallas lawyer Fred Baron wrote, “I will re-state what I have previously stated on one point: I learned of the affair only a few weeks ago and had previously presumed that the ‘tabloid’ stuff was all bogus…”
…A key national fundraiser for Democratic Party causes, Baron released his own statement Friday declaring that he had decided independently, without notifying Edwards, to help Hunter and Young “rebuild their lives when harassment by supermarket tabloids made it impossible for them to conduct a normal life.” He paid for their move from Chapel Hill to California…
…According to an article published Sunday, Baron told The New York Post that Hunter, Young and Young’s family lived together in California until tension in the household grew.
“They lived in a single house most of the time and split to two houses recently,” Baron told The Post.
here’s the blog post from “Texas Lawyer” yesterday with the interview with Fred Baron cited in The Charlotte Observer story linked above ^^ by Who da daddy
http://texaslawyer.typepad.com/texas_lawyer_blog/2008/08/fred-baron-says.html
Fox says Andrew and Cheri Young rented their house from Eric Montross, a professional basketball player.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403386,00.html
Montross had previously offered a very misleading story just short of an outright lie about his associations with the affair, stating:
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/08/eric-montross-would-like-you-to-know-hes-never-met-rielle-hu.php
The Edwards coverup continues.
The Ginny’s Community Governor’s Grove homepage no longer includes the August 7, 2008 “new neighbors page” including Eric Montross / Andrew & Cheri Young’s Archdale address.
(Note: This is a composite page excluding contact info of those who are not public figures.)
http://i33.tinypic.com/j5bi83.jpg
If their company was named after the vertical groove over the upper lip, they would’ve been called Philtrum Productions.
Since the Edwards camp is actively deleting all online content, here are the ‘new’ resident addresses of Governor’s Club in North Carolina, where Andrew Young lived in Eric Montross’ house (photo courtesy of the Raleigh Telegram) at:
http://i37.tinypic.com/9pq7wl.jpg
Andrew and Cheri Young
32340 Archdale
933-9701
Moved from Raleigh
Someone with a map of Governor’s club, an online real estate tool, and time on their hands could locate the house Rielle Hunter stayed at with the following list of new residents, curiously, also no longer available at the Internet Wayback Machine.
The names and phone numbers were eliminated, but their previous home city was kept, to help sort likely possibilities:
81505 Alexander
Moved from Cambridge, MA
81401 Alexander
Moved from Summerville, SC
78001 Stokes
Moved from San Jose, CA
72106 Moseley
Moved from Charlotte, NC
83208 Jarvis
Moved from Darien, CT
12703 Morehead
Moved from Palm Coast, FL
39504 Glenn Glade
Moved from Weston, FL
12020 Iredell
Moved from Maui, HI
13108 Morehead
76501 Rice
Moved from Hyattsville, MD
97533 Franklin Ridge
Moved from Indianapolis, IN
74012 Harvey
Moved from Boca Raton, FL
32520 Archdale (Same street as Cheri & Andrew Young)
Moved from Stedman in GC
60108 Davie
Moved from Chapel Hill
85401 Dudley
Moved from Raleigh, NC
39519 Glenn Glade
Moved from Kamuela, HI
60107 Davie
Moved from Chapel Hill
10427 Morehead
60200 Davie
Moved from Hilton Head, SC
79212 Hawkins
Moved from Westfield, MA
95113 Vance Knoll
Moved from Ann Arbor, MI
50021 Brogden
Moved from NY, NY and Irvine, CA
86503 Holmes
Moved from Brazil
81606 Alexander
Moved from San Diego, CA
77014 Miller
Moved from Rockaway Township, NJ
60119 Davie
Moved from Boone, NC
85417 Dudley
Moved from Naples, FL
76505 Rice
Moved from Davie, FL
75000 Miller
56704 Nash
Moved from West Palm Beach, FL
71001 Wilkinson
Moved from Los Angeles,CA
22003 Turner
Moved from Chapel Hill, NC
27432 Walker
Moved from Bombay, India
27426 Walker
Moved from Kerala, India
81419 Alexander
Moved from Dallas, Texas
27425 Walker ***
Moved from Washington, D.C.
54500 Craig
Moved from Napa, CA
85405 Dudley
Moved from Sacramento, CA
54504 Craig
Moved from Manhattan, NY
57801 Owen
Moved from Chapel Hill, NC
9000 Hoey
Moved from East Greenwich, RI
19036 Stone Brook
Moved from Salen, MA
10432 Swain
Moved from Hillsborough, CA
76523 Rice
Moved from Raleigh, NC
Sean and Kopriva Marshall
81106 Alexander
(309)230-4445
Moved from Rock Island, IL
77221 Steadman
Moved from Tampa, FL
97507 Franklin Ridge
Moved from Arlington, VA
39516 Glenn Glade
Moved from Charlotte, NC
27449 Walker
Moved from Duxbury, MA
97525 Franklin Ridge
Moved from Chapel Hill, NC
10376 Eastchurch
Moved from Potomac, MD
12010 Iredell
Moved from Chapel Hill, NC
20017 Bragg
Moved from Los Gatos, CA
85416 Dudley
Moved from Fairfax Station, VA
40002 Worth
Moved from Havelock, NC
76525 Rice
Moved from Newton, CT
53505 Bickett
Moved from Scotchplains, NJ
12081 Morehead
Moved from Phoenix, AZ
77233 Stedman
Moved from Chapel Hill, NC
53515 Bickett
Moved from Durham, NC
23120 Umstead
Moved from Chicago, IL
97511 Franklin Ridge
Moved from Charlotte and Wilmington, NC
72007 Wilkinson
Moved from Rancho Santa Fe, CA
60124 Davie
Moved from McLean, VA
85408 Dudley
Moved from Boston, MA
71006 Everard
Moved from Amelia Island, FL
79004 Hawkins
Moved from Port Jefferson, NY
87602 Aycock
Moved from Mooresville, NC
81523 Alexander
Second home
73003 Harvey
Moved from Pittsburgh, PA
75401 Rowan
Moved from Chino Hills, CA
97603 Franklin Ridge
Moved from Naples, FL
19034 Stone Brook
Moved from Orlando, FL
81604 Alexander
Moved from Arlington, VT
11009 Governors Dr.
Moved from San Diego, CA
20010 Bragg
Moved from Greenwood Village, CO
19028 Stone Brook
Moved from Ocala, FL
81115 Alexander
Moved from Lincroft, NJ
81515 Alexander
Moved from Vero Beach, Fl, Westport, CT
19200 Stone Brook
Moved from Shreveport, LA (Second home)
90009 Hoey
Moved from Duluth, GA (Second home)
72006 Wilkinson
Moved from Great Falls, VA
73216 Burrington
Moved from Waimea, Hawaii
11468 Club Drive
Moved from Rockville, MD
74009 Harvey
Moved from Chester Springs, PA
Michael Hussey and Lynn Wilson
19024 Stone Brook
942-6357
Moved from Chapel Hill
Andrew and Cheri Young
32430 Archdale
933-9701
Moved from Raleigh
19011 Stone Brook
Moved from Jericho, N.Y.
50003 Brogden
Moved from Chershire, CT
84403 Winslow
Moved from Madison, CT
37501 Eden
Moved from Elon, NC
95113 Vance Knoll
Moved from Philadelphia, PA
19234 Stone Brook
Moved from Wilton, CT
81002 Alexander
Moved from West Hartford, CT
75403 Rowan
Moved from Carborro, NC
10231 Governors Drive
Moved from Cary, NC
72103 Moseley
Moved from Chapel Hill, NC
73006 Harvey
Moved from Clifton, VA
10336 Nash
83207 Jarvis
Moving from Mahwah, NJ
23109 Umstead
10391 Holt
Moved from Hockessin, DE
95101 Vance Knoll
Moved from Fort Lauderdale, FL
75407 Rowan
Moved from Glen Coe, IL
81117 Alexander
Moved from Palos Verdes Estates, CA
60114 Davie
Moved from Ithaca, NY
81403 Alexander
Moved from Durham, NC
90021 Hoey
86506 Holmes
Moved fron D.C. area
12703 Morehead
Moved from Sydney, Australia
27419 Walker
Moved from Malvern, PA
60206 Davie
Moved from Chapel Hill
39513 Glenn Glade
Moved from Hong Kong
25301 Ludwell
Moved from Chapel Hill
72104 Moseley
Moved from Sarasota, FL
71002 Everard
Moved from Wayne, PA
10215 Governors Drive
Moved from Chapel Hill
81104 Alexander
240-5050
50017 Brogden
Moved from White Plains, NY
10454 Council
Moved from Raleigh
39514 Glenn Glade
Moved from Manhattan, NY
85423 Dudley
Moved from Westlake Village, CA
95139 Vance Knoll
Moved from Tampa, FL
22019 Turneroholli
Moved from Barrington, IL
22017 Turner
Moved from Durham, NC
7606 Rice
Moved from Rochester, NY
97525 Franklin Ridge
Moved from MT and FL
19207 Stone Brook
Moved from Chapel Hill, NC
83204 Jarvis
Moved from St. Paul, MN
39418 Glenn Glade
Moved from Pittsburgh, PA
27431 Walker
Moved from Minneapolis, MN
97526 Franklin Ridge
Moved from Chapel Hill
10726 Governors Drive
Moved from Chatham, NJ
54508 Craig
Moved from Flemington, NJ
72105 Mosley
Moved from Lexington, KY
75401 Rowan
Moved from Newton, MA
Am I the first to notice that Midline Groove was a
“full service” production company?
Trooth in advertising, yes!
Rielle Hunter’s Learjet left after 6pm from Oxnard, on Weds, August 6, 2008 per the latest Nationl Enquirer.
Help me out, FS: What’s that big ol’ list about? Sound bite, please.
The fun begins!
http://www.nypost.com/seven/08142008/news/nationalnews/john_aide_a_born_loyalist_124403.htm
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,403386,00.html
Yet another “Baby Daddy Fall Guy” article, and it’s a doozy. The money quotes:
A former JE staffer with intimate knowledge (sorry) says that AY and RH had “no relationship” and CY’s brother declines to add any “insight” into “this situation.”
Tee hee!
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2008/08/is-rielle-hunter-the-national-enquirers-source.php
JE’s perfidy has sunk to a new low.
“• Edwards last week called Hunter to tell her, “Of course I love you. Don’t worry, we’ll get through this.”
EE should kick him out on his fuckin ass just for that one.
On August 6 on Deceiver a post linked to the now deleted Ginny’s Community site:
Turns out a NBA player was on that list, Steven Montross.
Andrew Young was staying at 42340 Archdale, but listed his address as 43430 Archdale on Ginny’s Community site. Sure it may have been a typo, but it may have been an intentional switch of two numbers to prevent searchers from finding out the true owner was Eric Montross.
The list is still archived on Google by searching “42430 Archdale” (in quotes). Anyone could match up actual addresses against actual names and determine which addresses and names were fictitious or suspicious.
Investigate the ten or so that are left.
Taking a look at the Huffington Posts online donor map that list, shows a Stephen Zayton that is heavy Edwards donor that lived right down the street from the Archdale address.
http://fundrace.huffingtonpost.com/neighbors.php?type=loc&addr=32430 archdale&zip=27517&search=Search
NOTE: Last night at 10pm PST, the Eric Montross’ donation was not on the Huffington Post donation site. This morning, it is.
CAry Woods was a big pal of golden suicides, Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan, who believe $cientologists were stalking them. Is Rielle a follower of L Ron? She seems dumb enough.