A person involved in the investigation and who is familiar with the financial transactions told The AP that Baldick provided Young a salary boost of about $30,000 to move off the Edwards campaign payroll onto one of Baldick’s private organizations around the time Young began taking care of a pregnant Hunter in fall 2007, when the primary campaign was heating up. Young also got more than $150,000 in payments as a commission for money he raised for Alliance for a New America. A month after Young got his last campaign paycheck on Nov. 14, 2007, he publicly claimed paternity of Hunter’s child.
The subpoena asks for material related to Rachel “Bunny” Mellon, the 100-year-old widow of banking heir Paul Mellon. Young wrote in his book that Bunny Mellon would send him checks for hundreds of thousands of dollars hidden in boxes of chocolates, and he would use the money to help keep Hunter in hiding from the public and cancer-striken Elizabeth Edwards, who died just last month. Young wrote that Edwards agreed they should solicit the money from Mellon.
Mellon also had donated to Edwards’ campaign and his PAC and almost single-handedly bankrolled the Alliance for a New America political group with $3.5 million from her investment fund, Oak Spring Farms, also listed in subpoenas.
If it wasn’t wrong, why was it hidden in boxes of chocolate?
If it wasn’t wrong, why didn’t Edwards ask in his Forrest Gump voice, “Why is my money being hidden in a box of chocolate?”