Posted on 05/04/2009 8:41:26 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
Washington, DC (AHN) - Former U.S. senator and Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards acknowledged to a North Carolina newspaper that federal investigators are looking into whether campaign funds were used to hush up an affair he was having with a videographer hired by his campaign.
Edwards told the Raleigh News & Observer that he has "made available to the United States both the people and the information necessary to help [investigators] get the issue resolved efficiently and in a timely manner." He would not discuss the issue with the newspaper.
Sheila Krumholz, the executive director of the campaign watchdog group Open Secrets, told the paper that many non-profit groups not subject to the same transparency rules for donating to candidates funded Edwards' campaign to be the 2008 Democratic presidential nominee, so sorting out his finances will be difficult.
Campaign records show Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter, was paid $114,000 by a political action committee close to Edwards to film and document his campaign stops. The videos were shown on his campaign Web site.
The investigation is being led by U.S. Attorney George Holding, who is based in Raleigh. A federal grand jury could be convened to weigh the evidence. Holding would not comment on the Edwards to the News & Observer.
The affair with Hunter shocked the nation because it was going on while Edwards' wife Elizabeth was beginning a public battle with breast cancer. She wrote about her reaction upon finding out in her yet-to-be-released memoir, "Resilience: Reflections on the Burdens and Gifts of Facing Life's Adversaries."
“yes Im being investigated but my hair looks fabulous
with all the money he has, why did he use campaign funds to hush the gal? what a stingy, greedy maroon...
Wives tend to oversee domestic expenses. Campaign funds would help preserve the illusion (and self-delusion) that the slut was due compensation for campaign work.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy...and he’s a lawyer! Life is great!!!
I have to wonder who, exactly, John Edwards pissed off enough to bring all this down on him. I thought he was one of the elite that never had to answer to anyone.
He and his “dying” wife are both despicable.
Remember when Edwards said if Republicans had just spent a little more money, Christopher Reeve would get up from his wheelchair and walk again ?
I don’t understand this either. This stuff is standard for Dems makes me wonder why he’s being investigated.
WHY is Edwards being investigated? He’s a Democrat and they are immune from these kinds of things? What RAT is trying to get rid of him for good?
What’s brown and black and looks great on a lawyer?
.....a doberman
Jesse Jackson used charitable tax money to make his child support hush money payments and he’s still a free man.
I have to wonder who, exactly, John Edwards pissed off enough to bring all this down on him. I thought he was one of the elite that never had to answer to anyone.Maybe since the affair left him unelectable on a national level, he is just a token sacrifice so Bella Pelosi can claim to have rooted out all corruption on the Dem side.
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