Posted on 05/03/2009 4:55:38 PM PDT by Typical_Whitey
RALEIGH Federal investigators are sifting through the records of money that helped John Edwards' presidential campaign to determine if any was used to keep quiet his affair with Rielle Hunter.
Edwards, a Democrat and former U.S. senator, acknowledged the investigation to The News & Observer.
“I am confident that no funds from my campaign were used improperly,” Edwards said in a statement.
“However, I know that it is the role of government to ensure that this is true. We have made available to the United States both the people and the information necessary to help them get the issue resolved efficiently and in a timely matter. We appreciate the diligence and professionalism of those involved and look forward to a conclusion.”
Edwards declined to discuss the matter.
A review of Edwards' campaign money will turn up a cluster of nonprofits, some not subject to the same rules of transparency as official campaign organizations.
Records of one group that does disclose donors, the Alliance for a New America, show that Edwards' 2008 campaign got a huge boost from a single source: $3.48 million from a holding company for Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon, a 98-year-old matriarch of industrialist Andrew Mellon's fortune.
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Didn’t his Chief of Staff die last year taking full responsibility?
Shades of Zero Mostel, appropriate for that little fascist.
Springtime, for Edwards...
When are they gonna look at Obama’s?
How come it seems like whatever your political sympathies are, if you leave a huge estate when you die, eventually the money will be routed to leftwing causes?
They investigate Edwards but have refused a real investigation of Hillary. There is no comparison in the corruption.
Surprisingly, I just heard a blurb about it on local Portland TV news.
It should...
He's just biding his time. I predict he will reunite with the other woman eventually.
Simple: The heirs of vast fortunes don't have the hunger to be producers. They don't know how to make money without leverage because real investments are risky. Government control offers a predictable return and politicians are a dime a dozen.
Very interesting question. I think it has a lot to do with the "born into money" conundrum where one does not appreciate the effort that goes into acquiring an estate, and sees "society" as the contributing factor for personal wealth - not the ingenuity and hard work of its creator.
So the moral of the story is: if you are very wealthy and conservative, burn all your money before you die.
I see two significant things here, not unrelated.
One is the feds looking into any payments to the Edwards baby-momma for tax avoidance issues.
The other is Team Obama neutering the weakest of the 2012 field of contenders as early as possible.
Same end-game.
YMMV.
MSNBC had a segment on this morning about the affair. When another person mentioned that he may be the father of the baby, the host quickly cut off the segment and said “thats gossip and we don’t do that here”.
LOL
Paging Sarah Palin!
Paging Sarah Palin!
That almost a law like Gresham’s Law or or Say’s Law.
Any charitable foundation will eventually be taken over by leftists.
That is why John M. Olin charged his foundation to disburse all of it’s assets within a generation of his death.
Great builders seldom make great parents; they’re “too busy” to attend to such matters. Even Solomon the “wise” had a putz for a kid.
“Mellon appreciated Edwards’ fight to end poverty. Both she and her husband were committed to fair pay of their employees, Maclennan said.”
Sure they were. But gee, don’t “employees” work? So why didn’t Mellon just give away her fortune if she was so damn concerned about “poverty” and live like a pauper? These people are so fake about their “concern” thus their support for slimebuckets like Edwards.
Phonies all
That is one moral; another is to give most of the money to conservative causes, colleges, etc while you are still alive.
Whom do you think is behind the investigation? He sided with Obama against her.
Never. Never. Never.
If they are eating their own, they must really be desperate for money.
Translation: "Time to get lawyered up!"
The only reason the other woman is keeping quiet is because she knows John will be back to her and the baby. My heart goes out to his wife, who probably hates him.
Hillary has true believes inside the Justice Dept who have run interference for her. Perhaps Edwards has no such friends to protect him.
I agree with both points.
Ding, ding, ding!! We have a winner!!! This is why I've seen this blurb THREE times in the past hour on my local Portland TV news, KGW-TV, an NBC affiliate.
Team Obama is going to pick off the contenders one at a time, using tried and true Alinsky tactics.
They're already marginalizing Hillary by making her job as SOS merely a ceremonial one, with Dick Holbrooke and others doing the real heavy lifting. They made her look ridiculous when she gave that stupid button to the Russian bigwig, and the last video clip I saw of her, she looked horrible, as if she'd aged 20 years.
Ding, ding, ding!! We have a winner!!! This is why I've seen this blurb THREE times in the past hour on my local Portland TV news, KGW-TV, an NBC affiliate.
Team Obama is going to pick off the contenders one at a time, using tried and true Alinsky tactics.
They're already marginalizing Hillary by making her job as SOS merely a ceremonial one, with Dick Holbrooke and others doing the real heavy lifting. They made her look ridiculous when she gave that stupid button to the Russian bigwig, and the last video clip I saw of her, she looked horrible, as if she'd aged 20 years.
Oops - sorry for the double post.
What did you think of the recent remake of the Producers?
I hope they hang him good. Its his fault we have urkle as the president.
...he knows she'll go bezerk if he doesn't end up with her.)
Not to mention the other woman he is probably seeing now.
Trash.
I want to know when the media learned of the affair and how much effort they put into covering it up to keep him viable in the primary forcing Hillary into a 3-way race.
I ain’t buying it that no one except the National Enquirer knew.
They laundered his with zillions low-dollar credit card contributions, that don’t require FEC reporting. I’d bet some good money many were one-time-use CC numbers.
Translation: The Silk Pony believes the money trail was covered up and nothing will be found...
Well, if it wasn’t campaign money, the money was provided by someone and in an amount that would require by law the filing of either a Gift tax return to the IRS or a 1099 to the recipient.
If a gift tax return wasn’t filed it was a violation of law. If it was, did the “donor” pay the gift taxes. If the 1099 was filed did Edwards gal pal pay the appropriate income taxes on the amount.
I think Edwards is in a box here and one path or the other is like a clear violation of law and tax evasion. You know two Americas!!!!!!!! Ha Ha
When will they look at Obama’s campaign? His connection to ACORN, etc., is a big red flag.
Bunny Mellon’s fortune is immense. The year before Paul Mellon died in 1999, Forbes magazine estimated his wealth at $1.4 billion. Bunny came to their marriage with money of her own. She is heir to the Warner-Lambert fortune, a company now part of Pfizer, the pharmaceutical company.
Edwards said he is living in Chapel Hill with his wife and children and is volunteering for nonprofits dedicated to poverty issues in America and abroad.
I mean why is Edwards getting the solitary shaft?
Obama should be innvestigated too.
Obama has been fast and loose with is campaignfunds, using them to defend law suits seekinng information about his birth certificate for example. Were any of Obamas campaign monies used to cover up his affair with Baker. Inquiring minds want to know.
notice how the story stays out of the Main stream.
Maybe the National Enquirer will investigate.
I trust them more than the rest of the MSM.
When he makes enough people mad, then they will investigate him too.
...no gossip, but it’s A-OK for Joe Scarborough et al to say things like “She works a pole” (stripper reference) when talking about a Republican candidate’s wife and have a nice chuckle about it? >:-(
This kind of biased in the tank for the democrats crap is exactly why we NEVER watch PMSNBC here!! Disgusting, the double standards.
This is moving deeeeeep into tin foil hat territory, but do you think she’s being drugged sometimes? Drinking too much because Soros is holding something SERIES over her head (obvious at the DNC convention last year when they fought over Hil and O’s nomination)??
That pirate interview with the Moroccan ambassador was just too bizarre otherwise...
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