RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina judge is considering whether to hold a former aide to John Edwards in contempt in the legal fight over a purported sex tape involving the ex-U.S. senator and presidential candidate. (more)
The National Enquirer is reporting on “a devastating act of ultimate revenge,” saying that Elizabeth Edwards, the now-deceased wife of John Edwards, has left a video testimony to played during the former presidential candidate’s trial. (more)
Here is the problem I have with indicting John Edwards: Apparently the prosecutors’ idea is that if Edwards used money from “Bunny” Mellon and others to keep his mistress stashed away and quiet, this was really a campaign expense and should have been paid for out of campaign funds. But suppose Edwards had paid for it with campaign funds. Don’t you think prosecutors would now be thinking of indicting him for an improper use of campaign funds? (You can’t pay for most meals using campaign funds. You can’t buy mittens with campaign funds. Are mistresses going to be OK?) … (more)
Attorneys for a former aide to John Edwards today sought a court order to compel the two-time presidential candidate to provide additional information in a dispute over ownership of a sex tape he allegedly made with his mistress. (more)
Everybody’s favorite Rielle Hunter source, Pigeon O’Brien, tells her story in the Huffington Post. I learned some things: 1) A lot more people were investigating the Edwards/Hunter sex scandal than I’d thought. It wasn’t just the National Enquirer and Sam Stein of HuffPo. Other campaigns and other publications were calling O’Brien for confirmation. Which raises the question: If so much of the MSM knew or suspected the story was true, why was it subequently so easily cowed by the efforts of John and Elizabeth Edwards to cover it up? 2) After Edwards’ first semi-confession, when he swore he couldn’t be the father of Rielle Hunter’s child, MSM reporters took his side with O’Brien: (more)
CHAPEL HILL, N.C., March 1 (UPI) — Former 2008 Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards of North Carolina may face a federal indictment connected to campaign finances, observers said. (more)
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal criminal investigation targeting John Edwards is examining how much the two-time presidential candidate knew about money used to cover up his extramarital affair and out-of-wedlock child and whether other practices of his violated campaign finance laws, people involved in the case have told The Associated Press. (more)
Just days after the National Enquirer reported that John Edwards proposed to his mistress, Rielle Hunter, People magazine, the Daily Beast, and ABC News are reporting that their sources say the engagement is merely a rumor. (more)
Three weeks after burying ex-wife and breast cancer victim Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards has proposed to Rielle Hunter, his mistress and the mother of his infant daughter, the National Enquirer reported Thursday. (more)
1.) We will all die of old age before anyone cuts spending — After a largely symbolic repeal of Obamacare, what will Republicans do next to cut spending? Absolutely nothing, apparently. “Entitlement reform will only be done on a bipartisan basis. So we’re waiting for signals from the president as to whether or not that’s a discussion he’s willing to have,” said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, in a Thursday press conference. “The president must embrace it.” The Daily Caller’s Jon Ward writes, “House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Virginia Republican, acted on Tuesday as if Obama was the one who was just elected based on promises to cut government spending” and that “House Speaker John Boehner, Ohio Republican, had no answer Thursday for NBC’s Brian Williams when asked to name ‘a program right now that we could do without.’” Head, desk. (more)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An insider’s account of John Edwards’ affair and the lengths he went to hide his mistress will be developed into a movie, a former aide to the two-time presidential candidate said Thursday. (more)
John Edwards’ mistress has a message for the man who wrote a tell-all book about her sexcapades with the ex-presidential candidate: Show me the money! (more)
On Saturday night, April 24, 2010, five days before John Edwards’s mistress Rielle Hunter sat down with Oprah to talk about the by-then-infamous sex tape and other embarrassments that had destroyed his political career, the former presidential candidate showed up at the West End Wine Bar in downtown Durham, North Carolina. It was around ten o’clock, and Edwards wanted a glass of wine after finishing dinner with friends at a nearby restaurant. (more)
Former U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate John Edwards turns 57 today. The disgraced politician has given us at least that may absurd stories in recent years. (more)
Elizabeth Edwards is said to be determined not to let her husband’s mistress become her children’s stepmom. (more)
Hunter says in the interview airing on The Oprah Winfrey Show tomorrow that Elizabeth Edwards didn’t know about her husband’s affair until after John Edwards gave an August 2008 interview to ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff, reports AP. (more)
Former presidential candidate John Edwards has a date with destiny: The Daily Beast has learned Edwards has been called to submit to a sworn deposition on May 13 in the case of Rielle Hunter v. Andrew Young. (more)
Oprah Winfrey has landed the first TV interview with John Edwards’ mistress Rielle Hunter, RadarOnline.com has confirmed. (more)
The closeup that titillated the country this week was a little too Rielle for Elizabeth Edwards. (more)
Before Rielle Hunter, there were “several women,” Andrew Young tells Diane Dimond. The ex-Edwards aide details 2 a.m. jogs, towel-stuffed hotel doors, and other clues to a Tiger Woods problem. (more)
