HuffPo: John Edwards INDICTED? Grand Jury Set To Indict Edwards, National Enquirer Reports

[arcos]

A federal grand jury is about to indict John Edwards, sources tell the National Enquirer. The grand jury has been investigating the former presidential candidate since April 2009 for possible misuse of campaign funds -- Edwards had mistress Rielle Hunter on his payroll -- and indictment is now imminent. The Enquirer talked to one friend who revealed that John was "terrified":

"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."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/03/john-edwards-indicted-gra_n_484200.html?ref=twitter

[eShirl]

1. well they've been right so far

[krispos42]

37. It hink that is one of the signs of the apocolypse

:scared:

[DefenseLawyer]

2. Thank goodness there aren't any war crimes to investigate. n/t

[eShirl]

4. not a lot of soap opera style "drama" in that. n/t

[Owl]

26. +1

[still_one]

3. That is fine and good, but how about the republicans who did similar things? /nt

[Jack Rabbit]

30. You mean Ensign?

I believe that's being investigated. He's probably shaking in his shoes if this is true (and it could be, even if it comes from the Enquirer). Just be patient about Ensign. He could be in even deeper hot water than Edwards.

I don't have a lot of money, but I contributed $100 to Obama. If he had used that money to carry on with another woman and hide it, I'd be pissed. That's not why I give money to political campaigns.

[MannyGoldstein]

5. Geez... an endless horror.

It's not a surprise that a fellow who worked for a hedge fund specializing in predatory lending businesses would do this kind of stuff... but it's still painful to watch the meteoric plunge.

[hlthe2b]

6. and where does the similar investigation of John Ensign (R) stand?

Anyone want to bet which one skates?

[movonne]

11. I was wondering the same thing....is he under investigation??

[tom_paine]

19. Tut, tut, being Republican means being able to get away with almost anything.

No grand jury investigation needed, no lingering Corporate Media problems, no nothing.

It unreal and creepy in the extreme. Yet the double-standard is so tightly cemented and repeated over and over again it isn't funny.

Edwards may well be the last one to EVER speak publicly about Corporate Domination in our Inverted Totalitarian Empire.

The Corporations/Bushies are making an example of him, I think.

Unfortunately, his behavior gave them an in, and I say again his behavior can't be condoned.

It's just that Repugs frequently get away with the exact same sh*t which sink Democrats like Edwards and Spitzer.

Welcome to the Modern Far-Right Corporate State. NEW and IMPROVED with TEN TIMES the Plausible Deniability - it's RETSIN for totalitarian stink!

[earth mom]

27. You nailed it. They are going after Edwards because he dared to expose those bastards on t.v.

Didn't the head of the Chamber of Commerce swear he would get even with Edwards and anyone who had anything bad to say about big business?

Bastards! :grr:

[DJ13]

7. I'll never understand rich people

He didnt need to be a cheapskate and violate the law to pay her, he is rich.

[TheDebbieDee]

10. The way I figure it, must have been the only way

to get money to Hunter that his wife, Elizabeth wouldn't find out about.

Maybe Elizabeth kept a close eye on their joint accounts and his campaign account was the only one Elizabeth didn't have access to.

[DJ13]

13. Thats probably it

Still, a guy with that money can always find means to funnel it through others to hide its intended destination.

[SoCalDem]

22. He didn;t dare spend "family" money on her.. His WIFE would have objected

candidates play fast & loose with campaign money all the time.. Had there been no baby, he would have been okay because she would have had no leverage..and he would have just told her to go pound sand...and continues to lie.. he-said-she-said.. the baby changed the math

[John N Morgan]

8. That's my American justice. John Edwards has an affair and gets crucified

And the war criminals responsible for 1Ks if not 10Ks of deaths go free.

Love it.

In fact it is the same crap as the "Clenis" campaign.

[tom_paine]

15. Exactly. It's not that what he did was right, but if he was a Repug he'd have gotten a standing

ovation on the Senate floor, and sympathetic Bushie prosecutors would have made sure he didn't have any problems with ongoing inevstigaions, which would have been covered up and buried.

Who would shout about it? A handful of Lib'rul bloggers?

The depth to which Bushification has taken over so much of our nation, particularly Law Enforcement and the Judicial system, is staggering.

It is close to Soviet-level double-standard, if not AT that level, particularly for high-level, public-eye Democrats vs. Repugs.

[cali]

36. so we shouldn't prosecute any crimes until buscho is prosecuted?

um, no. and sorry if he used campaign funds on his mistress he damn well should be prosecuted.

[Mojambo]

9. What a fall... n/t

[deminks]

12. What, did he use public funds to fly to Argentina? Oh wait

I think I have these affairs mixed up. Oh wait, that was ok 'cause it was a thug and there's no child that we know of. How silly of me.

[MicaelS]

14. The Quiet Dignity of Rielle Hunter

Now THIS is really outrageous. http://www.newsweek.com/id/233977 Glad I had the wastebasket handy.

[unc70]

45. Quiet dignity, plus facing a Repub grand jury and a possible alienation suit

Keeping ones mouth shut would be prudent for anyone facing a federal grand jury and a Republican prosecutor. Not to mention that Hunter could be sued in NC for alienation of affections. John Edwards has not made many public statements lately, either.

While that Newsweek article has some unflattering descriptions of Hunter/Dreck, they are much tamer than most. The piece cleverly avoids any of the details of her life prior to meeting John Edwards, or that she had previously come to national attention after her trial-lawyer father was the cover story in Sports Illustrated for hiring a mob hitman to kill her horse in order to collect the insurance. After that article, it was obvious that the fictional "Alison Poole" in her ex-boyfriends novel wasn't fiction after all but based on Hunter/Lisa Druck. (He is now married to the niece of Patty Hearst.)

No mention either that her father-in-law was the DA in the JonBenet murder case. Or that when she and her husband (also an attorny) separated, Hunter lived for two years in the house of Ann Bardach, a promient reporter and journalists, who just happened to write the definitive JonBenet article in "Vanity Fair".

Lots of people in the West Coast politcal circles, including several prominent bloggers and reporters, knew Hunter and it has been reported that some of them had copies of emails from Hunter about the affair, almost boasting.

[sellitman]

16. He made his own bed

Or maybe not....

[MicaelS]

17. Dupe --- deleted n/t

[MicaelS]

18. Dupe ---deleted n/t

[dionysus]

20. oh smoove johnny, what will you do next?

:rofl:

[Peace Patriot]

21. If true, you gotta figure that Edwards still poses some threat to our corpo-fascist rulers.

My guess would be that he knows how the 2004 (s)election was stolen (--knows more than we already know). If election night stories are correct, he is the one who didn't want to concede. Why?

----------------------

:grr: :mad: :patriot: :mad: :grr:

[dionysus]

35. ROFL

:spray:

[cali]

38. anyone that thinks that greedy corporate mr. hedgefund ever posed any threat

to his pals in the corpocracy is fucking beyond delusional.

[unc70]

43. You might want to research that hedge fund a bit more

One of the senior partners was a fundraiser for Edwards and Kerry in 2004.

He is also the source who was with Edwards in that NY hotel bar when Hunter apparently first talked briefly with Edwards. From his description, Hunter and a friend were almost stalking Edwards that night. Doesn't condone his behavior or hers and makes it hard to explain how that first encounter progressed to an affair.

If I remember correctly, one of the more profitable investments involving Edwards was in a company that recovered gold coins, etc. from sunken ships.

[WeDidIt]

23. Good. n/t

[blm]

24. If John Edwards was a Republican he'd have gotten a STANDING OVATION instead of legal scrutiny.

Has anyone seen an indictment for SITTING Senators like Ensign? Vitter? Bond?

[Political Heretic]

31. What about Governor Appalachian Trail?

[Bluenorthwest]

25. All he has to do is tell the Grand Jury about his traditional views

of marriage, and how he never supported equal rights because of those deeply Baptist views that marriage is between one man, and one woman, a Sacred institution, made by God, like he did all over America when running to be Chief Adulterous Hypocrite and he'll be fine!

[Raine]

28. Good ... I find it really disgusting when

those in our party act worse than repukes. I expect better from those on our side and I hope he does get punished.

[blm]

33. true...but...had he switched parties and become a Republican the odds are he wouldn't be scrutinized

so closely for any illegality involving his extramarital affair.

[frogmarch]

29. He's a Dem, not a republican war criminal, so

of course he'll be indicted. :eyes:

[Swamp Rat]

32. ¡Pura vida tuanis!

:hi: ¿Hace mucho tiempo, no? :hug:

[arcos]

41. ¡hey! Ha sido un montón de tiempo...

¿Cómo has estado? :hug:

[Bitwit1234]

34. Maybe he could be investigated but why in the hell are letting

all the republicans off the hook. Look at Ensign he paid off his mistress' husband and got him hired ILLEGALLY as a lobbyist.

Then of course Sanford was a state governor, but HE STOLE MONEY FROM THE STATE TO VISIT HIS GIRL FRIEND and the state left him office hook.

And darn there are plenty of republicans still in congress that the Justice Department half heartedly investigated and haven got around to do any thing about yet..long before they found out that Edwards had an extra martial affair. But then the impeach democrats don't they for having sex.
Republicans they let it go as routine.

[rug]

39. We should see it in 24 business hours.

[Crabby Appleton]

40. K&R

[tritsofme]

42. Too funny. This all couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.

I have been endlessly amused by the whole saga.

[Wizard777]

44. Indicted for what? It's not illegal to have your mistress working on your campaign.

As long as she actually provided the services she's billed the campaign for. Considering that she was the campaign videographer. I think the sex tape more than proves that she went above and beyond on providing services to the campaign.

[Orsino]

46. I won't believe it until I hear Edwards himself...

...deny it.

[malaise]

47. They'd better indict Ensign

and his family.