Posted on 08/12/2008 2:16:21 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
Former presidential hopeful John Edwards' mistress grew up in Florida with a dad who once found himself in the FBI's sights.
Born Lisa Druck in Fort Lauderdale, Rielle Hunter didn't leave much of a footprint there. Or on the Central Florida community of Ocala, where she went to high school. Or Tampa, where she went to college.
Correction: A previous version of this story said James Druck died in 1992.
Her father, however, did leave a legacy in this state. An ugly one.
Quoting an FBI informant shortly after James Druck's death in 1990, Sports Illustrated named him a figure in a frightening 1980s trend that many in Florida's horsey set, including in Wellington, would rather forget: the killing of show horses and ponies for insurance dough!
A long-time Ocala resident, James Druck was a lawyer who worked mostly for insurance companies.
Yet according to informant Tommy "The Sandman" Burns, a stable hand at Druck's stables through the early 1980s, Druck taught him how to electrocute horses so that insurers would believe the animals died of disease. Starting with his own.
Burns told S.I. that Druck paid him to put down his brilliant jumper, Henry the Hawk. For that, and $115,000 from Henry's policy, Druck showed Burns how to slice an extension cord, attach one end with a clip into the horse's ear and the other into its rectum, then plug the cord into an outlet.
"You better get out of the way," Burns said. "They go down immediately. It's a sick thing . . ."
Burns went on to kill at least 20 more horses until he was arrested in Florida - and sentenced to a year in jail.
Burns' most famous "hit?" He was hired by Wellington cellphone heir George Lindemann Jr. to electrocute his champion jumper Charisma for a $250,000 policy in 1990. Multi-millionaire Lindemann served 33 months in prison.
What about Druck? He died a rich man near Tampa at 58, after a bout with cancer. One of Rielle Hunter's former buds described rides in Druck's private jet and a Ferrari.
"The girls spoke very highly of their father," said Jupiter resident Steve Smith, a commodities broker. He lived for several years with one of Rielle's four sisters, Jennifer, a designer who recently moved to London. "They loved him. They lived with him after his divorce from Rielle's mom, and he kept giving some of the girls money for a long time."
Sounds like Ms. Hunter’s father gave off “negative energy”.
slice an extension cord, attach one end with a clip into the horse's ear and the other into its rectum, then plug the cord into an outlet.
Good one!
:)
This could be where her horse face came from.
She sort of resembles Austin Powers. Especially her grin and the way she holds her head, she looks slightly insane.
Sadly, it’s true. There was a book about this story and fraud, and an episode of Law and Order about it also. Now that I know more about Hunter’s father, I know more about Edwards too. There’s no way he didn’t know about Ms. Hunter’s smarmy father. Probably identified with him easily.
Exactly!!
(EggsAckley)
And now his daughter is a Silky Pony Killer. That is some strange Karma!
ROFLMAO!
She was also married to the son of DA Hunter who made a mess of the JonBenet case.
“Aw, C’mon! This sounds like a Monty Python skit!!
slice an extension cord, attach one end with a clip into the horse’s ear and the other into its rectum, then plug the cord into an outlet.”
Actually this was used by Dick Francis in one of his books. I wonder if he was talking about these cases. He used to winter in Florida.
I know I heard it somewhere but isn’t that the exact technique that Lisa Druck used on Edwards to get some sperm for her insemination?
Why would it matter? Nobody is responsible for who birthed their lover, even if they shouldn’t have that person as a lover.
“This could be where her horse face came from.”
Or her obsession with studs...
...unfortunately, didn’t see one in John Edwards. She saw ‘sugar daddy’, though.
I used to love Dick Francis.
Sis???
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2003/09/272431.shtml
Feds threaten to shut down Genesis Juice / Military Vehicles seen entering Eugene on Train
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GENESIS GETTING SQUEEZED BY FEDS
Without a miracle, Genesis Juice Co-op, Eugene’s only raw juice company since 1977, will soon close.
Their products do not comply with a new FDA law that prohibits the distribution of juice not treated by pasteurization or another anti-bacterial process.
“War is OK, cigarettes are OK, but raw juice is not OK? Give me a break,” says Melissa Druck, worker/owner at Genesis since 1998.
I saw a bunch of military hardware on a train coming into Eugene this morning; I wonder if this is related??
Maybe they think people won’t stand for this.
She looks like Prince Charles’s lovely Camilla.
Mirror in the bathroom Can I take you to a restaurant
that's got glass tables
You can watch yourself
while you are eating.
Every Saturday you see me
window shopping.
Find no interest in the
racks and shelves
Just a thousand reflections
of my own sweet self, self, self...
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