Paul and Bunny Mellon in 1987. She is now 99.
Posted on 01/31/2010 4:33:22 PM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
Payments from a wealthy heiress to the Mellon fortune through a Monroe, N.C., interior decorator helped subsidize the cover-up of John Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter.
The decorator, Bryan Huffman, eventually became the conduit for as much as $700,000 from Rachel "Bunny" Mellon – what the Edwards camp called "Bunny money" – to help cover the expenses of Rielle Hunter and Andrew Young, Edwards aide who claimed to be the father of her baby.
Mellon's money was part of more than $1.5 million that Young told ABC News was used for the cover-up. He said the money paid for a coast-to-coast odyssey that included trips on private jets, expensive lodging and even a BMW for Hunter.
Some of the money, he said, also came in cash from the late Fred Baron, a Texas lawyer and Edwards' friend.
Federal prosecutors in Raleigh are looking into whether Edwards misused campaign money to pay for the cover-up of his affair and the child he finally acknowledged is his.
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Paul and Bunny Mellon in 1987. She is now 99.
Fool!
And the poor thing probably had no idea what she was paying for.
If there was campaign funds I hope he goes to JAIL.
She thought he was another John Kennedy...
Looks like he was pretty comfortable living in the 2 Americas.
Pray for America’s Freedom
No, he is a Democrat. Therefore he is entitled to abuse everyone elses money as he sees fit. How dare they prosecute him, that's for the little people.
She gave Edwards a lot of money, not just the pregnancy cover-up money. It'll probably all come out in the investigation.
Wow—that Silky Pony was one prized horse in the DemRat stable. In his two America’s however does that make him a two trick Pony phoney? Or just one rather expensive glue horse set out to pasture!
Oddly enough, the extremely despicable Edwards would have made a better Attorney General than Eric Holder.
John Edwards is just a scumbag. A big scumbag!
No doubt the same Mellon of ‘Carnegie/Mellon’.
I wrote to ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” and told them to give it up - they can’t write a shocking script any sleazier or sicker than John Edwards and crew actually did in real life - all while running for President of the United States and accepting an award for “Father of the Year.”
I’m sure if the writers at DH had submitted the storyline, someone at ABC would have told them to re-write because it just wouldn’t be believable.
It wouldn't be easy to get Edwards convicted with all his money.
You’re right! Did you really write to them...LOL
Think we found us a bride for Sen. Robert KKK Byrd. Hope he likes a cougar woman with big $$$. Sen. Lurch would know for sure!
Paul Mellon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mellon
Bunny Mellon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Lambert_Mellon
If there was campaign funds I hope he goes to JAIL.”
If there is any legal action against Edwards- which I believe should happen-.....then there should also be action against NObama for spending campaign funds to keep people away from his birth certificate.
It wouldn’t be easy to get Edwards convicted with all his money.”
Depending on N Carolina divorce laws-—he will have only 1/2 of ‘his money’.
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