Ex-Kevorkian Lawyer Indicted For Illegal Donations to Edwards Campaign

AP, via WRAL (Raleigh radio station) ^ | August 24, 2007 | David Runk

[southernnorthcarolina]

DETROIT — Attorney Geoffrey Fieger, best known for representing assisted suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian, was indicted on charges of conspiring to make more than $125,000 in illegal contributions to the 2004 presidential campaign of former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards.

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Edwards spokeswoman Colleen Murray said in a statement that if the charges result in a conviction, the campaign will return the money. Fieger has maintained he had nothing to do with his staff's financial support for Edwards.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Worst. Candidate. Ever.

[NonValueAdded]

Birds of a feather (Cathartes aura)

[bigbob]

Fodder for the Greta panel?

[southernnorthcarolina]

Thanx to NCBraveheart, who first posted this on the NC Board. I felt it deserved wider attention.

Looks like collusion between the ambulance chasers and the hearse chasers.

[stm]

If ever there was a campaign in need of Dr. Kevorkian, it's Edwards'.

[BigFinn]

Bookmarked.

[stm]

Along the same line as ambulance chasers and chiropractors (who my dad, an orthopaedist, used to call “back quacks)

[NCBraveheart]

This will go nowhere

[Farmer Dean]

Hey,if Fieger wants to piss away his money on that useless jerk Edwards-let him.If stupidity were a crime,then Feiger would be looking at yet another felony indictment.

[southernnorthcarolina]

Excerpting was required, and I didn't do a very good job. I recommend clicking the link. There's some pretty juicy stuff in the article -- setting up straw donors; obstruction of a grand jury investigation; trying to pin the illegalities on a deceased person (oh, the irony); and of course the usual statements that "in this country, you're innocent until proved guilty"; and the usual claims that the candidate knew nothing about the affair.

[Judges Gone Wild]

Fieger just doesn’t have The Knack for politics.

[LongTimeMILurker]

>Fieger just doesn’t have The Knack for politics.

Actually, that was his brother in the Knack, not him.

[Uncle Hal]

This guy used to be on Greta’s legal panel on FNC to discuss topical legal news. I had not seem him lately. Guess I will not see him again.

[jmaroneps37]

Well now! isn’t THAT nice? opie is a scumbag who is supported by scumbags. That proves the order of the universe.

[bkepley]

He should be indicted for that stupid haircut.

[Hot Tabasco]

Sorry to bring up a dead thread but thought I would share some more info on this jerk Fieger. Over the past several months he has been running 2 different ads on local TV here. I thought that 1. he was promoting his law practice or 2. that he was buying himself face time in order to make a run for governor. The second Ad was equating Bush and Cheney to hitler and that they were coming after the lawyers and that people should be very afraid because its the lawyers who are standing up for the people......

Last week a judged ordered Fieger to stop running the Bush/Hitler Ad because what he was doing was trying to taint the jury pool for his upcoming trial........