Andrew Young Gives Sex Tape To FBI

Andrew Young: I Gave FBI Copy of Sex Tape



A former aide to John Edwards says in court documents that a copy of a sex tape featuring his former boss has been sent to the FBI.

Andrew Young said Friday he has the original copy of the tape showing Edwards in a sexual encounter in a safe deposit box in Atlanta. He said a copy of the tape was sent to his Washington attorney, who turned it over to federal investigators.

Young has said the tape shows Edwards and a woman he believes to be the two-time presidential candidate's mistress, Rielle Hunter. Federal investigators have been looking into the money that exchanged hands during Edwards' second White House campaign. He has denied breaking campaign finance laws.

Also Friday,Judge Abraham Penn Jones declared Friday that Young was in contempt of court for not turning over a "personal" videotape being sought by Edwards' former mistress.

Judge Penn Jones reprimanded Young in a court hearing Friday but declined to put him in custody. The contempt ruling will be lifted if Young - author of a new tell-all book about the Edwards scandal - turns over a videotape "of a personal nature" and other items by Wednesday, Jones said.

"These items are to be produced and turned over to the court," Jones said. "The court will put them under lock and key - and under seal - until the lawsuit is resolved."

Edwards' former mistress, Rielle Hunter, who had worked on his 2007-08 presidential campaign, had won a temporary restraining order against Young that sought the return of what she called a private video she made in 2006. But when deputies went to retrieve the item, Young's attorney declined to release it. Young has said he has a copy of a video showing Edwards in a sexual encounter with a woman he believed to be Hunter.

Hunter has also filed a lawsuit accusing Young of invasion of privacy.

In his book about the affair between Edwards and Hunter, Young says he found the tape in a "box of trash" Hunter had left behind at a home he rented in North Carolina. He writes that the tape had been pulled out of its cassette casing, but that he was able to fix it.

Young's attorneys had disputed whether he even had the tape that Hunter was referring to. They contended that the woman in the video was pregnant, but Hunter had written in an affidavit that the tape was made in September 2006, some 17 months before her child with Edwards was born.

"In or about December 2006, the decision was made that the Video should be destroyed," she wrote. She said she pulled out the tape from the cassette and stored it in a box with personal belongings.

Young says he helped Edwards cover up the affair, and claims he kept the tape along with phone messages from Edwards to back up his account of what he saw. Edwards now admits he fathered the baby girl born to Hunter in February 2008.


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