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AeWingnut 03-04-2010 05:56 AM

Mega reliable news source claims Edwards going to JAIL
 
The National Enquirer is reporting that disgraced former presidential candidate John Edwards is about to be indicted by a federal grand jury investigating his campaign expenditures.

In another shocker, close sources say Edwards' estranged wife Elizabeth could help send the former presidential candidate to jail!

Edwards, the disgraced two-time Presidential loser, is being investigated by the feds, including the FBI and IRS, for possible campaign violations related to paying his mistress Rielle Hunter.

The grand jury has been meeting since April 2009, and insiders say an indictment is imminent.

"John is terrified that he's going to be indicted," a friend told The ENQUIRER.

"While he believes he's done nothing illegal in trying to hide his extramarital affair with Rielle and their daughter, he thinks the Feds are going to make an example of him."

The Raleigh-based grand jury has been looking into whether payments Edwards made to mistress and former campaign videographer Rielle Hunter broke campaign laws. Former Edwards staffer and tell-all book author Andrew Young alleges more than $1 million was paid out to conceal the relationship, according to WRAL.com:

"I heard one of the jets to get Rielle out of the country cost $55,000 to $60,000," Young told WRAL News.

Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, heiress to the fortunes of 19th century industrialist Andrew Mellon and the founder of the Warner-Lambert pharmaceutical company, gave Edwards at least $700,000 to cover expenses for Hunter, according to Young. He said Texas lawyer Fred Baron, who was Edwards' campaign finance chairman, funded other expenses.

"We were living in a house that I co-signed with Fred that was $20,000 a month," Young said, noting that his family went into hiding with Hunter in California in 2007.

Still, late-night comedians still dig Edwards.

"John Edwards has finally admitted that he is the father of his mistress's baby. He says he is so ashamed, he can hardly look at himself in the mirror. On the bright side, it frees up an extra four hours of the day for him." --Jimmy Fallon

Danzig 03-04-2010 06:53 AM

oh, how the mighty have fallen.

AeWingnut 03-04-2010 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Danzig
oh, how the mighty have fallen.


I never thought of him as mighty

scumbag trial lawyer
yes

mighty
no

GBBob 03-04-2010 07:43 PM

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Originally Posted by AeWingnut
I never thought of him as mighty

scumbag trial lawyeryes

mighty
no

They are, until you need one..then they are not

hoovesupsideyourhead 03-04-2010 08:10 PM

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Originally Posted by GBBob
They are, until you need one..then they are not

:tro: ;)

dellinger63 03-04-2010 08:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GBBob
They are, until you need one..then they are not

wow we are starting to agree more and more.....

I hope I'm not changing?

IMO to a lessor degree the thought is the same for Med. Dr.'s. Hopefully we'll always be able to choose public option (public defender/Dr.) or Private Practice (Mayo Dr.) but somehow I doubt it as it seems health insurance is a human right now in the U.S. supreme even to due legal process. :wf

Danzig 03-04-2010 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by AeWingnut
I never thought of him as mighty

scumbag trial lawyer
yes

mighty
no


no, not truly mighty-except in his own mind!

Riot 03-04-2010 09:16 PM

I agree with 'Zig - that clown show only continued on as Edwards wanted it to. Even his own staff were afraid something terrible would happen and he'd get the nomination.


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