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...week after Condit finally admitted to police that he had had an affair with Levy, new and ominous information emerged - from investigators, from tabloid sludge to website Drudge, from the incessant talk-show tales told by another "other woman" (a flight attendant with fire-engine red hair) to the claims of a father who said his daughter's fear of her former lover had driven her into hiding. The Condit legal team fought back, volunteering DNA samples, allowing searches, proffering a polygraph test. But the recriminations have not stopped, not from the cops, not from the press and certainly...
...Most damaging of the accusations last week was that seven years ago, Condit had an affair with the teenage daughter of a Pentecostal minister in his district. It is the stuff of daytime soaps. The minister just happened to do landscaping work for the Levys. According to the Washington Post, while the Rev. Otis Thomas was caring for the roses by the Levys' backyard pool, Chandra's mother struck up a conversation about her daughter's friendship with the Congressman. Thomas then confided that his own daughter Jennifer, now 26, had had an affair with Condit years ago, and that...
...rather neat crescendo, this week's increasingly meaty tidbits took care of that. The further investigations into Condit's correspondence with Anne Marie Smith. The minister whose then-18-year-old daughter had had her own affair with Condit and feared for her own safety. And finally the on-camera appearance of the police, searching Condit's apartment before setting out among the dumpsters and abandoned buildings of Adams Morgan...
...Washington lawyer Jim O'Dea says that in order to be classified as obstruction, a lie would have to be about something material to the case, and Condit could argue that lying about an affair wasn't material. Also key would be exactly what questions the police asked; if they weren't precise, and if Condit managed to deflect them, a jury might simply laugh at the cops' ineptitude...
...Condit's statements to police may also provide authorities with some leverage. If it's true that it took him until his third interview to confess to an affair with Levy, does that mean he lied to them in the first two sessions? Under the D.C. code obstruction of justice charges can be brought against anyone who "corruptly" (as in by lying) "obstructs or impedes or endeavors to obstruct or impede the due administration of justice in any official proceeding" (such as an investigation of someone's disappearance). For his part, Condit has officially stated that he never asked anyone...