Blind Trust: The True Story of Enid Greene and Joe Waldholtz

I didn't think this book was as poorly written as the other reviewers claim! Okay, there were a couple of misplaced apostrophes and a malapropism or two, but that's par for the course for true crime books. (Also, Squirrel Hill is NOT "a suburb of Pittsburgh," it's a neighborhood IN Pittsburgh. But that's minor.) I found it to be a real page-turner! What a fascinating story. And you know what, I wound up feeling bad for poor old Enid. Ordinarily I have little sympathy for Republicans and/or Mormons... but nobody deserves to be jerked around like she was. Yeah, she should have noticed quite a few red flags, but she was in love, so she didn't. Which made the final smash that much worse for her. What a mess. I would have liked a few more details on the financial shenanigans, but that's my only criticism. Highly recommended!

This is more than just the story of Enid Greene and JoeWaldholtz, this is the story of the Republican Party in the microcosmof their lives. The corruption behind Enid Greene Waldholtz's Congressional campaign isn't exceptional, it's the rule of Republican Party politics. She just got caught, and like all politicians, tried to blame a scapegoat (i.e., the suddenly "psychopathic" Joe).I was living in Utah during this entire sordid episode, and Enid's blubbering television news conference changed nothing. The money stains were all over her fingers. Corruption is as corruption does.

When a kingdom is lost, not over a nail from a horse's shoe, but by a wire-tapping special prosecutor, a bordello queen practicing in the White House, a voyeur President with an id bigger than his pants; it is refresshing and most rewarding to read of a different way to lose a kingdom. I refer to Blind Trust the story of Enid Greene and Joe Waldholtz.The ture and well- researched account of good people caught by something they had never seen before: a psychopath whipping up election campaign funds in a successful effort to win a 1994 Congressional seat for his wife. Tired of the salacious material made available by the House Judiciary Committee? Read a Shakesperian-type tragedy instead.Joe Waldholtz, the psychopath, was popular, witty, charming and romantic enough to leave a trail of used, multi-millionaire women who are still sympathetic to him. He weighed 350 pounds and was five years younger than the beautiful and extra-bright Enid Greene.Enid is not still still sympathetic to Joe. She made the mistake of marrying him, of having a child with him, and of winning election to Congress with him bouncing checks and not paying bills. But he did meet her incredible ambition to win. He was also the cause of her losing her political career, the trust the people of Utah and the backing of the most powerful leaders in the national Republican Party.Forest Greene, Enid's well-intented father is also in the cast. He kept running behind Joe, like a nanny behind a one-year-old cleaning up diarhhea messes, with hundred thousand dollar bills to pay for the loses.Read and vote: Too much love given unwisely, or too much ambition.