[gridlock]

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?

[bert]

.....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.

[Chucky is a girlie man]

Nah, he needn’t pay gift tax. Perhaps social security and medicare...the employer’s share. LOL