Posted on 07/30/2008 12:30:40 PM PDT by pissant
Refusing to call it quits despite being dissed by mainstream media, The National Enquirer has released more scandalous John Edwards allegations!
The celebrity gossip tabloid reports that Edwards’ alleged mistress / baby-mama, Rielle Hunter (also known as Lisa Druck), will not say a word about their affair and love child because she’s being paid to zip it - $15,000 a month!
The money is reportedly being funneled to Hunter by a colleague of John Edwards, the former U.S. Senator from North Carolina, 2004 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee (running with John Kerry) and 2008 presidential candidate.
This same man is also supposedly paying off John Edwards’ friend and aide, Andrew Young, who tried to take the heat off the ex-Senator when the story broke in December by claiming he fathered the baby of Rielle Hunter.
A campaign insider told the National Enquirer the following: “A super-rich pal – who was closely involved with the campaign finances – is helping John. It’s likely this man doesn’t know all the dirty details of John’s extramarital affair, but is acting out of loyalty and is not asking a lot of questions – just writing the checks.”
John Edwards has spoken only briefly (and awkwardly) in sort of denying the story.
(Excerpt) Read more at celebrityblend.com ...
I was just telling this story to my 17 year old son, who sat in stunned silence, then said, “He’s dating a woman?”
Mrs. Edwards is on the phone with Hillary.
hhmm....wonder what Mrs. Edwards thinks of all of this?! What a real man his wife has cancer and he is doing another woman! I had him pegged for a Nancy-boy.
Globe reporting HOBama may have ‘love child’! LOL! It’s better than what they were printing about him a couple months ago.... :o
$15,000 a month for silence... or is it child support? If so, that’s a lot of silver spoons!
Since the secret is out, it will be interesting to see if he reduces the payment.
The Globe? I guess they want to get that out in the open before the convention. Maybe it’s not too late for Hillary.
There is the question of Clinton ties to the Enquirer.....
Is this story retribution or good old fashioned political sex dirt?
If Retribution, what for?
Maybe the report of Obama’s love child is an effort to reconcile Obama to the historical record discussed in “The Da Vinci Code.”
Have you seen John's little crib in the country?
15K is probably the monthly eclectic bill.
You're getting screwed! ..again.
The other father, Andrew Young, must be paying sumthin too. Ha!
And Mrs. Edwards and Mrs. Young are just fine and dandy with this...?
As Charlie Sheen says of prostitutes... “You don’t pay them for the sex. You pay them to go away.”
Paying $180K a year is a major investment in cover-up, even for a filthy rich fellow like John Edwards. It is the cover-up that gets these guys in trouble, of course...
I wounder if he is paying gift taxes on that money?
If Retribution, what for?”
For turning his back on Hillary and joining up with Nobama.
.....I wounder if he is paying gift taxes on that money?....
There is no indication it is a gift. There might ba a host of corporations domestic or off shore, who could provide the woman with a salary and legitimate business expenses that total $15,000.
A very simple way would be to give her a Mastercard from a Cayman Islands Bank an there would be no obvious trace or paper trail.
Wonder how this shyster-lawyer likes PAYING thousands of HIS money in a pay-out rather than raking it in from some poor doctor he sued! What goes around — comes around!
bwahahahaha...what a complete tool. He deserves the VP nod.
Something for Nuthin’ is a gift.
People go through great gyrations to hide gifts, and sometimes they succeed. But a gift is a gift, and is taxable.
If the gift is proven, and it can be shown that efforts have been made to conceal it, it is fraud on top of evasion of taxes. This is when it gets really good...
What a mess. But I guess Silk Pony can be marked off the Obama VP list for good with this one. Even by democratic family values standards, this makes Edwards as toxic as a barrel of nuclear waste right now.
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