Aug. 13, 2008
Report: $$ Still Flows To Edwards' Ex
He's Denied Knowing Of Payments To Former Mistress; Questions Raised About Their Source, And Legality
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Play CBS Video Video Edwards' Honesty Questioned The National Enquirer has alleged that John Edwards was aware of payments being made to his former mistress Rielle Hunter. Is Edwards avoiding the truth? Bianca Solorzano reports.
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Video Rielle's Sister Comes Forward "Entertainment Tonight" previews their exclusive interview with Rielle Hunter's sister, Roxanne Druck Marshall. She tells Thea Andrews she believes John Edwards is lying about the affair.
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Timeline The Edwards Affair Events leading to former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards' admission of an extramarital affair.
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Photo Essay John Edwards In his second presidential campaign, Edwards ran as a populist, with a focus on poverty and health.
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."\
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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,,,
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.
I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Ms Lewinsky.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP5FunbZvJ8
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..
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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.
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!
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.
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.
He really needs to shut up and quit lying. All the lies will come out.
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