Report: $$ Still Flows To Edwards' Ex

He's Denied Knowing Of Payments To Former Mistress; Questions Raised About Their Source, And Legality

(CBS)  Former presidential candidate John Edwards knew his ex-mistress, Rielle Hunter, was receiving payments from his former campaign finance chairman, according to the National Enquirer, the publication that broke the story of Edwards' affair.

What's more, says the Enquirer, it has "uncovered that Edwards' political operatives are still paying" Hunter.

After months of denials, Edwards admitted to the affair, but vehemently denied fathering a baby with Hunter, or knowing she was being paid.

On the ABC News broadcast "Nightline" Friday, Edwards said, "I've never paid a dime of money to any of the people that are involved. I've never asked anybody to pay a dime of money, never been told that any money's been paid."

If the story is true, asked CBS News correspondent Bianca Solorzano, the question remains, where did the money paid by the former Edwards campaign finance committee chairman, Fred Baron, come from?

"So far," Enquirer reporter Rick Egusquiza told CBS News, "we don't know that they were illegal. If they were contributions from the campaign, then obviously, there's some issues there with legality. But at this point, we're still trying to investigate that."

CBS News legal analyst Mickey Sherman told Early Show co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez Wednesday Edwards might be in legal jeopardy if it could be shown the funds were used for purposes other than the ones they were meant for.

"If you raise money to run for (office)," Sherman explained, "and if you take that money that people have contributed to you based upon the fact that they think their money is going to a presidential candidate, and you give it to a girlfriend of a God-knows-what ... that's a crime. But the question is, how do you prove that? And, she was somehow working for the campaign (as its videographer), so was the money she got so inappropriately more than what she deserved -- that's going to be the issue the feds are going to have to look at. ... It would be a federal offense."

The allegations could not only have legal ramifications, Solorzano observes, they would shed considerable doubt on Edward's denial that he fathered Hunter's child.

On Tuesday, Hunter's friend, Pigeon O'Brien told The Early Show she doesn't think Edwards has fully come clean, saying, "because Mr. Edwards told an untruth on national television, and I think it's unfortunate for the voters and for his family, for Rielle and her baby, and I think somebody needs to advocate for her."

The Enquirer is also reporting that Hunter "was whisked away on a private jet two days before" Edwards' appearance on Nightline.

In addition, the Enquirer says it "has also confirmed that Edwards secretly visited Rielle and their love child three separate times at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles this year. ... Enquirer reporters caught Edwards, 55, making a late-night visit to 44-year-old Rielle and their daughter at the hotel on July 21."

The Enquirer also says, "After Edwards confessed the affair to his wife, he restarted it, and was sexually involved with Rielle when she became pregnant."\

[reunionpi]

Andrew Young of the John Edwards story: The arrests for worthless checks, DWI, burglary, criminal mischief, the federal tax lien

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[kristk68]

who si telling the truth CSB or the Hunter''s friends.it seems like that she got gains on Edwards.

[trrrorislamx]

DEMONIC-RATS DO NOT WANT SECRET BALLOTS,,,

For some, right to secret ballot could be lost
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/shared-blogs/ajc/thinkingright/entries/2008/08/13/right_to_vote_in_privacy_could.html

NEVER VOTE DEMONIC-RAT AGAIN,,,

THEY ARE FOR COMMUNISM,,,

Howard Stern vows never to vote for Democrat again due to merger opposition: ''They''re for Communism''...
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20080724152511.aspx

some people are slow learners,,,

must be the DEMONIC-RAT controlled public education/propoganda system,,,

[jsutaguy]

Nobody cares about John Edwards, Brittney Spears, or Paris Hilton.

Take this *** off the "news" and tell us whether the USA is about to enter WW III in Georgia against the Soviet Union.

Get this Edwards *** out of the news.

[trrrorislamx]

THAT WOMAN,,,

I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms Lewinsky.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP5FunbZvJ8

[libsluv2spit]

CBS quoting the Enquirer, I guess we have seen it all now.


Posted by barbaraf4 at 11:26 PM : Aug 13, 2008
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if you are going to find ''facts'' from a biased ''politically correct'' liberal leaning new source..good luck..

[barbaraf4]

Posted by heathcares
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You know way too much about this story. I suggest you get a good night''s sleep and find a new hobby tomorrow.

[barbaraf4]

CBS quoting the Enquirer, I guess we have seen it all now.

[liberty_1776]

CitizenUSA, you''re exactly right!

Message to the IRS: Hey, John Edwards and his campaign finance committee chairman Fred Baron are PAYING $15,000.00 a month to Lisa Druck, a.k.a. Rielle Hunter! Is she paying quarterly taxes on that income? And WHERE is that money coming from? Enquiring minds want to know!

[platteman]

Can you say lifetime meal ticket!! Hello!! Now Edwards has to splain the facts. Ok, he is a trial lawyer. He''ll splane everything so it is clear as mud.

He is a cheat, he did it once, he will do it again. He lied to everyone. he would make a great UN ambassidor. Maybe he would love to be secretary of labor, how about head of the fbi or cia. That way he could splaine away everything.

[citizenusa-2009]

HELLO I.R.S.! You''ve brought down many a public figure by taxing them until they paid up, went to prison, or died. Rielle Hunter aka Lisa Druck''s $15,000 per month is INCOME. You MUST TAX IT! Uh, oh, little miss "hot pants" probably didn''t count on THAT!!

[tx2democrats]

you rock smb127.....that was the best laugh of truth I''ve had all day.

[tx2democrats]

that is so true.....best blog of the day.

[tx2democrats]

For all of you bleeding hearts out there, sympathizing with Elizabeth I want you to ponder one fact. She knew of this affair and still tried to get him the nomination. In my book this makes her a power hungry person equal to the slime bucket trial lawyer that she married

[timothyone-2009]

John is a certainly a screwed up ***hole, but he hasn''t started any wars based on lies, he hasn''t
killed anyone for oil or money, so he is still far better than most we now have in power. His wife supported him because she knew his flaw, and knew
that type of flaw is not the kind that destroys nations.

[heathcares]

This is so obvious. Rielle is a trifling ho, who probably took a payoff from the Enquirer to set Edwards up. The first time I saw her on TV she was gloating! SHe couldnt have been happier! She wanted the story out to get Elizabeth to dump John, which is the only way she thought she''d get him. Having his baby didnt work. But then, John got to her and made his "I''ll take a paternity test" while she switched it up from gloating to "I wont take a paternity test. I want my privacy". And now John has her hidden away. This guy is a louse. Rielle is his trifling PAID ho, and that is his baby. JOHN EDWARDS IS A LAWYER. HE KNOWS *** WELL THAT HE COULD SUE TO DEMAND A PATERNITY TEST, BUT HE''S NOT SAYING HE''LL DO THAT!! Personally, the only thing that he said that came close to the truth was that at the time of the affair, he was narcissistic. Change that to present tense and it''s dead on. I hope his payments to the ho are illegal and he goes to PRISON!

[smb127]

For all of you bleeding hearts out there, sympathizing with Elizabeth I want you to ponder one fact. She knew of this affair and still tried to get him the nomination. In my book this makes her a power hungry person equal to the slime bucket trial lawyer that she married.

[stevex47]

I''m guessing the payments are to keep her from taking a paternity test.

He really needs to shut up and quit lying. All the lies will come out.

[verified-cbs]

Political donations from democrats are going to pay for child support for their candidates love child.

[kansas1946]

OK, I think we have heard enough about this smarmy business on network news. Let''s drop this into the tabloid trash basket and let them play it out to the end. I am sick of it. Another guy cheats on his wife isn''t really news, and since John Edwards is finished in politics, what he does or doesn''t do really isn''t news anymore either. I feel very sorry for Elizabeth and his kids for having to endure this slimy story, so let it die, CBS.