What Bunny hath wrought

It was illegal for John Edwards to get Rachel “Bunny” Mellon to give many thousands to hide his  mistress in order to help him become president–but giving many thousands to fund a BS-y antipoverty institute that had exactly the same purpose is OK? … It seems to me this is the key legal question the prosecution will have to answer. If the line is vague as I think it will be, should this  really be a criminal case? …