Via Politico, the Government's trial exhibits in the John Edwards trial, including voicemails and transcripts, have been released by the Court and made available here.

Here's the haircut letter from Bunny Mello to Andrew Young. I can't quite make out her handwriting, but she does refer to her payments as a way to avoid government restrictions.

There's an Amex bill to Andrew Young that says at the top it is 18 pages. (Isn't that long for a credit card bill?) This would be the credit card Young used to pay the expenses for his family and Rielle Hunter. Hunter had charging privileges too, in the name of Jaya James.

Politico also reports today the Judge denied a request by Rielle Hunter's lawyer that unspecified trial exhibits be kept sealed. Her order is here. The judge said Hunter has to file a written request to limit access to each specific trial exhibit she thinks should not be released.

As to Hunter's objection on the public release of physical items (property) admitted at trial that she claims belong to her, the Judge said she can file a motion for the return of the property at the end of the trial. Politico writes:

A sex tape depicting Edwards and Hunter has been the subject of litigation in state courts, but Eagles indicated she wouldn't blindly follow state court orders about what should be public and what should be kept under seal.

I think it's highly unlikely there is any connection between the sex tape and any request for privacy Hunter made today. The state court ordered the tape destroyed at the end of the state case, and no one objected. Any order the federal judge was to later make about items the state court ruled should be public or private doesn't pertain to the sex tape, which had been ordered destroyed, not kept public or private.

I explained what happened here. In February, 2012, the state court in the Young-Hunter civil case ordered all copies of "the sex tape" in Young's possession destroyed within 30 days, as part of a 23 page order that divided some items between Young and Hunter and ordered other items destroyed. The order also directed Young to make good faith efforts to have the Government destroy any copy of the tape that it possessed.

The Court stayed its order as to everything but the destruction of the sex tape and directed notice be provided to the parties in Edwards' federal case, so they could object to the division or destruction of other items. Here's the relevant paragraph of the order excluding the sex tape from the stay order.

John Edwards, contrary to initial false media reports, did not contest the destruction of the sex tape, nor could he, since it wasn't covered by the stay order.

John Edwards did file a notice of his intent to seek a stay in both state and federal court, so he could object to the division or destructon of other items covered by the state court's order, but this did not pertain to the sex tape, the destruction of which was precluded from being challenged under the stay order.

Translation: Andrew Young's copies of the sex tape have been destroyed. If the government kept a copy of the sex tape, it has probably been destroyed, and if not, it is stored in some secure place. It's not coming into evidence as an exhibit -- relevance and prejudice issues aside, it isn't even on the Government's intended exhibit list.

Since today's court's order pertained to a request by Hunter concerning items admitted into evidence at this trial that Hunter wants kept from the public, and the sex tape isn't coming into evidence, her request did not relate to the sex tape. Nor did did any current or prior federal court order addressing the extent to which the federal court might follow state court orders on issues of public and private access to various items relate to today's order. The Judge today expressly referred only to Hunter's motion concerning public access to exhibits "received into evidence and that the Court indicates in open court will be available to the public for review."

For those more interested in the salacious aspects of the case than election law, here's a place to discuss them.