Edwards Scandal Update: Criminal Complaint Filed

July 25, 2008 · Filed Under John Edwards

The John Edwards scandal that the media is pretending didn’t happen has taken yet another turn today. The reporters from The National Enquirer who actually caught Edwards cheating on his wife have filed a criminal complaint with The Beverly Hills Police Department.

NATIONAL ENQUIRER reporters Alan Butterfield and Alexander Hitchen filed a criminal complaint with the Beverly Hills Police Department on Thursday, July 24, charging that hotel security acted unlawfully while the reporters were trying to question the former senator.

Edwards now could be contacted by police to give an eyewitness account of what occurred.

Hotel security tried to stop reporters from questioning Edwards when he was cornered at 2:20 A.M. in the basement of the hotel. Edwards took off running and ducked into a bathroom and closed the door. When reporters tried to follow him in, hotel security intervened. Thus, preventing reporters from asking Edwards why he was knocking boots with some broad while his wife is at home with cancer.

The reporters charge that not only did one security guard threaten to break their camera but that security also violated several statutes of the California Penal Code, including false imprisonment and preventing a guest from entering land.

The ENQUIRER reporters were registered guests at the hotel, while Edwards was not.

Police recorded the criminal complaint and will turn it over to detectives.

Today is day number four of the media blackout on the John Edwards scandal. How long will they wait??

NEW UPDATE:

Fox News has interviewed a security guard at the hotel who witnessed the events described in The National Enquirer story.

The Beverly Hilton Hotel guard said he encountered a shaken and ashen-faced Edwards — whom he did not immediately recognize — in a hotel men’s room early Tuesday morning in a literal tug-of-war with reporters on the other side of the door.

“What are they saying about me?” the guard said Edwards asked.

“His face just went totally white,” the guard said, when Edwards was told the reporters were shouting out questions about Edwards and Rielle Hunter, a woman the National Enquirer says is the mother of his child.

The guard said he escorted Edwards, who was not a registered guest at the hotel, out of the building after 2 a.m. Edwards did not say anything while he was escorted out, said the guard, adding that at times the reporters on the scene were “rough on him,” sticking a camera in his face and shouting questions.

It’s not surprising that Fox News is the only network with the courage to look into this story. Let’s see if the other networks follow suite or continue their cowardly blackout of the story.