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To: PJ-Comix

Spineless RINO’s could have done that to 0bama - but then we would have had Creepy Joe so don’t know which would have been worse.


9 posted on 12/11/2018 8:15:01 AM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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John Edwards' Hush Money Was Not Illegal, FEC Told Campaign
Good Morning America, via Yahoo ^ | May 14, 2012 | JAMES HILL, BETH LOYD and RUSSELL GOLDMAN
FR Posted on 12/11/2018 by libstripper

After John Edwards was indicted, FEC auditors determined that the hush money he received from wealthy
donors to cover up a torrid affair did not need to be reported in the campaign's financial disclosure reports
,
his campaign's chief financial officer testified.

After three weeks of salacious testimony about Edwards' affair with mistress Rielle Hunter and the nearly $1 million
collected to keep it quiet, Edwards' lawyers kicked off their defense focusing on the much less steamy intricacies
of campaign finance law.

After reviewing the campaign's financials for four years, the FEC determined last month that money Edwards' aides
collected from wealthy donors Rachel "Bunny" Mellon and Fred Baron were "not campaign contribution[s],"
Lora Haggard, Edwards' 2008 chief financial officer, said........ (Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...

10 posted on 12/11/2018 8:21:50 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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