He's going to be very popular....in prison
It is the PROSECUTION not persecution of the Breck Girl.
98% of the politicians in this country should be in prison together, IMO.
This guy deserves a long stretch in the cross bar hotel, not for cheating on his dem loving wife but for what he did which was diverting money to pay off a paramour to maintain his credibility of being a family man....just not which family I guess.
He's going to be very popular....in prison
If there's ambiguity and even the campaign-law experts can't agree, there's no certainty "beyond reasonable doubt" that he was guilty of a crime.
We, too --- every single one of us --- need to protected from prosecution on laws which were too vague for a reasonable person to know what was allowed and what was prohibited. And aggressive, selective prosecution exploiting equivocal legal bafflegab is unjust, even if it's an injustice against a cold-hearted lying adulterer-pustule like Edwards.
As Chapman stated in the final words of the article, "He may deserve to rot in hell. Just not in jail."
Not even close.
The money never went into a campaign fund, but the government says that it SHOULD have gone into the campaign fund because it was an “in kind” contribution, in that attempts to keep his affair and bastard child a secret were more about the campaign than about his personal life.
Edwards got “friends” to pony up cash for his girlfriend, but none of it was campaign money and no amount of leglalese is gonna help the government prove it as such.
The government has a WEAK case and Edwards is gonna WALK.
“he in essence embezzled a million dollars from campaign funds and funneled it to his mistress.”
The money she got wasn’t from campaign donations, it was sent directly to her.
If there is any crime it is that she didn’t pay income taxes on it.