was ready to surrender after then-candidate Barack Obama won the hotly contested Iowa caucuses. 'He asked me to reach out to the Obama campaign and make clear his availability on the ticket,' said Hindery, managing partner at Intermediary Partners, a private equity firm in New York. 'We talked about a more elaborate goal of Mr Edwards, which was to be a Supreme Court justice,' Hindrey told the federal panel. There were other highlights from the trial. Young said Hunter told Edwards she was pregnant in June 2007, weeks later than the aide originally claimed in a tell-all book published in 2010. Young said Edwards, told him to 'take care of it', meaning the pregnancy. 'He said she was a crazy slut and there was a one-in-three chance that it (the child) was his,' Young testified. Defense attorneys tried to paint the Youngs as a money-hungry couple who used the story for their own benefit. At one point, Edwards' adviser Tim Toben was asked in front of jurors about a sex tape that showed Edwards and Hunter. Toben admitted he had jokingly talked to Young about how much the sex tape might be worth. The defense lawyers produced a 2009 email from Toben to Young that said: 'Wonder what that tape is worth today?' The tape, and copies of it, was ordered destroyed by in a court settlement between the Youngs and Hunter. He used an old lady to cover up his mistakes.He used friends to cover and protect a home