Sources: Edwards Considering Plea Deal

[Hissyspit]

Source: WRAL-TV (Raleigh)

Posted: 12:19 p.m. today
Updated: 13 minutes ago
Sources: Edwards considering plea deal

RALEIGH, N.C. — Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is considering a plea deal to conclude a two-year investigation into possible campaign finance violations, sources tell WRAL News.

The case has been under review by the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., in recent months, and officials recently signed off on prosecuting Edwards. WRAL News has learned the case will likely go to the federal grand jury early next week, and an indictment could come by late next week.

The investigation appears to have zeroed in on money from a 100-year-old campaign supporter and attempts to hide Edwards' affair with a campaign staffer.

Former Edwards aide Andrew Young wrote in his tell-all book, "The Politician," that heiress Rachel "Bunny" Mellon gave Edwards a total of $700,000 as a gift. The so-called "Bunny money" helped fund the cover-up of Edwards' affair with video producer Rielle Hunter, who was pregnant with the former U.S. senator's child during the 2008 presidential campaign.

Read more: http://www.wral.com/news/local/politics/story/9648349/

[RandySF]

1. And to think of how self-righteous this guy was in 2008

[Skink]

2. Thank god for that supreme court decision.

[Armstead]

3. Bunny Money?

I wonder if she knew what it was being used for....

[customerserviceguy]

4. Of course she did

If he had managed to be elected president without this coming to light, she could have blackmailed him for years with it. Add to his idiocy the fact that he let himself get into a situation where he could be blackmailed.

[MadAnne]

7. Blackmail him for years? She's 100 years old. n/t

[customerserviceguy]

9. All she'd have to do is live another four or eight

Other than senility, why else would she do this?

[Veracious]

5. I love Edwards still. We are all human. He's a good man.

I wish it hadn't happened though.

[customerserviceguy]

10. No, he's not a good man

He denied the parentage of an innocent child for quite some time after he dropped out of the presidential race. He's stupid for having unprotected sex with a woman who is at least, a goofball, at worst, a Republicon plant designed to embarrass him. He simultaneously trotted out his cancer-victim wife while he was schtupping this fruitcake.

If the decisions he made with regard to this whole affair are even slightly indicative of how he would have governed as President, then I shudder to think how close we came to this bullet we dodged.

[Thrill]

6. I still have one of his best quotes in my sig line.

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[customerserviceguy]

11. Did those forces

make him sleep with this lunatic, all the while masquerading as the courageous husband of cancer-stricken Elizabeth Edwards? Did those forces compel him to deny the parentage of the innocent child that arose from this affair, for quite some time after she was born?

Anybody who is filled with disgust for the Sperminator for the revelation that came out last week, and who excuses Edwards, is a bald-faced hypocrite.

[Bragi]

13. I'm not filled with disgust in either case

The energetic but tedious self-righteousness I see displayed by some around both cases disgusts me more than what either of these men have done.

I neither condone or applaud their behavior, I truly don't. They were reckless and foolish and hurtful.

However, the prosecutions and threatened investigations into their use of funds to hide their mistresses or their secret offspring are a waste of time and money.

If you make a list of things seriously wrong with the financing of American politics, the use of campaign funds for covering up embarrassing situations, is way down the list.

I'd prefer to just move on without any further investigations, hearings, commissions, trials, etc. If legislators want to pass laws tightening things up to preclude specific expenditures, then go at it.

[wordpix]

8. where are the indictments of the water-torturers & BP & Goldman Sachs execs?

:grr: double standards

[24601]

12. Give him the Scooter Libby deal - a fine & disbarred - but no jail

That seems to be the going rate for cover-ups.