" "Didn't Fund also beat his girlfriend? Seem to recall that a few years back"
Yes he did and I certainly am not making any excuses for that. What he did was wrong and no excuse for it."
The John Fund beating story was flogged over and over by Lloyd Grove, the lefty gossip columnist of the Washington Post.
In June 2003, The Nation, of all places, published
" Who Framed John Fund ?"
The author said he was gleeful reading the accounts of Fund's troubles ,especially since Fund had been so hard on Clinton ,vis a vis Lewinsky.
But, according to the author, the mother/ daughter duo's allegations against Fund never seemed legit.
The daughter accused the mother of fabricating the story that Fund and she were to marry.
From the article :
"Over the past few weeks, I've received a set of documents from a close friend of Fund's--now posted on the Internet--that demonstrate to almost any fair-minded person
that Fund is probably the victim of a deeply disturbed person."
"In a signed affidavit, the woman in question--
whose true age is 36, seven years older than was reported, and who was born Carolyn Anne Barteaux ,but
carries a passport (a copy of which was provided to me by Fund) under the name Carolyn Anne Pillsbury and now goes by Morgan Francis Pillsbury--
withdraws any accusations of physical abuse, accusations that resulted in Fund's arrest.
She also denies in the affidavit that they had ever planned to marry."
"In a letter to the Wall Street Journal, she acknowledges that she has "trouble distinguishing between reality and fantasy" and in a sworn deposition, she says she has a "borderline personality disorder.
One of the symptoms of this condition is an inability to discriminate truth from fiction."
In that same deposition, in response to the question, "What lies had you told in the past?" she answers, "Too many to name."
Fund admitted mistakes in judgement (his first was probably ever associating with the mother and her daughter, one apparently more unbalanced than the other ), but, has always denied any type of physical abuse.
Hell, if the dame is that psycho, I'm suprised he didn't smack her. Sounds like fatal attraction.
Thank you for the reminder in #138. Yes, it is all coming back now. I remember that now but forgot. I was just happy when I saw Fund still writing for the WSJ.