There’s Something About Lee
Attorney a Martha Mitchell Figure?
A look at Lee Rohn, reported as Rielle’s host in the Virgin Islands by the National Enquirer and why the Enquirer called her “controversial”.
Richard Nixon once said that if it hadn’t been for her, there wouldn’t have been a Watergate.
He wasn’t referring to the ubiquitous Deep Throat; he meant Martha Mitchell. The “Mouth of the South” wife of then-Attorney General John Mitchell who went down in flames for his role in the Watergate saga.
Martha Mitchell was a tragic figure whose infamous, midnight phone calls to reporters became the talk of Washington. Back then, she was widely derided as delusional and a lush; she provided the comic relief in an otherwise tawdry tale.
[Martha Mitchell]
Yet poor, befuddled Martha had the last laugh when many of her allegations were subsequently proved true. Martha had long been known for her scissor like tongue, and this poem was written in her high school yearbook. Who could have guessed how prescient it would prove to be:
“I love its gentle warble,
I love its gentle flow,
I love to wind my tongue up
And I love to let it go.”
In the bizarre story of John Edwards and Rielle Hunter and its peripheral players, trial attorney Lee Rohn of St. Croix may turn out to be the Martha Mitchell in this curious tale. The National Enquirer reported (and Rohn vehemently denied) that Hunter initially stayed at Rohn’s oceanfront manse.
The selection of Hunter’s hideaway is an odd choice, considering that Rohn is currently on trial–after many appeals and delays–for felony possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute.
In March of 2003, airport drug scanners found marijuana in her tennis shoe. When apprised of this discovery, officials testified that Rohn asked them to “look the other way”. She finally admitted that the drug was for her boyfriend’s sick father (the Good Samaritan defense?).
Still, it’s curious that Rohn would pop up in this story. Or maybe not, given her connection to Edwards (more about that later).
Continue reading: Lee Rohn: Coke, Controversy and Dropping the F-Bomb
by Mondoreb/CB
Source: Lee Rohn: Coke, Controversy and Dropping the F-Bomb
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3 users commented in " John Edwards Scandal: Lee Rohn’s “Controversial” Bio "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackDamn! My parents wouldn’t let me babysit for Martha when I was in high school.
I ended up at UT Austin, and I’m shocked I tell you at what a HAG lee Rohn has become. She was actually a very pretty girl in college!
Lee Rohn - anyone one who has ever lived on st croix can tell you what a litigous skank she is. One of the scariest experiences of my life was going to her (in)famous New Year’s Eve party. EEEEEEK!
Pretty much everyone who wants to be anyone is there and the majority of the guests are not real friendly…let’s just put it this way…the gala guest…Chucky Hansen - the Queen of Rotten Politics and Corruption.
Our defence was we were new to the Island and no-one warned us - a definite air of menace to bring the New Year in.
She got charged with posession of marijuana with intent to distribute while smuggling a large volume of drugs through the airport.
On March 29, 2003 at Henry E. Rohlsen International Airport in St Croix, USVI (Criminal No. 113/2003). Prosecutor was Charlotte Poole-Davis, the Acting Chief Criminal Division, Department of Justice, 6040 Castle Coakley, Christiansted, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, 00820.
http://www.vid.uscourts.gov/territorial/03cr0113.pdf
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