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must be her electrifying personality
3:44PM ON
08/16/2008
BY
Beth Comery
Where do these successful men even meet these dreadful creatures? The New York Times hammered the final nail into Edwards’ coffin-shaped career yesterday with a report on the affair’s complicated cover-up. Lawyers… lots of lawyers… came up with such a sure-fail plan one can almost suspect the republican party had a hand in it. But the most shameful aspect of the story may be the background on this Rielle Hunter, nee Lisa Jo Druck. For one thing, her recent history includes that hallmark of intellectual profundity — new age spirituality. The Times states that in 2006 (during the affair) Hunter, with the help of her associate, Pigeon O’Brien, had been working on “… her ‘Being is Free’ Web site and a related foundation”. That’s bad enough.
It turns out, however, that show horses are not free. In a bizarre twist with many Rhode Island connections, it appears that the Drucks were involved in the horrific ‘horse murders’ of the early 90’s (23 indicted, 20 pled guilty). In a very big story of the time, the national equestrian show jumping circuit was exposed as an amoral greed pit when it came to light that killing inconvenient-but-expensive horses for insurance money was not uncommon. Noted equestrian and Brown grad, George Lindemann, Jr. was convicted and given a 33-month sentence. Paul Valliere, trainer and owner of Acres Wild in North Smithfield, wore a wire and ratted everyone else out to avoid prison. A crowbar was used on one horse in a particularly vile episode. Seventeen-year-old Lisa’s horse was one of the first to be killed. According Sports Illustrated, it was her father, a successful Florida lawyer, who devised the protocols for properly electrocuting the horses without leaving any evidence of wrong-doing. He died during the FBI investigation. (It is these events that made their way into the oft-mentioned Jay McInerny novel.)
But apparently Lisa, I mean Rielle, has got it all together now, spiritually-wise. Maybe her new project could be called “Being is Free — How about Your Husband”?
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