Posted on 04/05/2009 10:16:46 PM PDT by melt
Multiple sources now confirm The ENQUIRER's report that a federal grand jury is investigating possible misuse of presidential campaign funds by John Edwards to pay off his mistress.
U.S. Attorney George Holding revealed yesterday he "was not going to confirm or deny any investigation" regarding Edwards that was first reported by the ENQUIRER earlier this week.
A Federal grand jury did convene on Wednesday in Raleigh, North Carolina, according to multiple local reports. Grand jury proceedings are kept secret. Attorneys are liable for criminal prosecution if they discuss such investigations in public or to the press.
Prominent Raleigh defense attorney and John Edwards' mentor Wade Smith declined to comment on whether he was representing Edwards before the grand jury investigation.
"I'm at a place where I cannot make any comment to confirm or deny," Smith said. "I can't say anything. It's possible, at some later point, I can."
The disgraced 2-time Presidential candidate began his career working for Wade Smith's law firm and they are long time friends.
Last summer, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER caught Edwards visiting his mistress Rielle Hunter in the Beverly Hills Hilton. After vigorously denying the affair for months, Edwards admitted the affair on national television in August after the ENQUIRER published spy photos of Edwards holding his love child earlier that week.
Edwards has also denied paying either campaign staffer Andrew Young, who claims to be the child's father or Rielle Hunter, his admitted mistress, any funds from the campaign war chest.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalenquirer.com ...
Typical Wade Smith doublespeak:
Prominent Raleigh defense attorney and John Edwards’ mentor Wade Smith declined to comment on whether he was representing Edwards before the grand jury investigation.
“I'm at a place where I cannot make any comment to confirm or deny,” Smith said. “I can't say anything. It's possible, at some later point, I can.”
Not much in the article that says anything about a political party affiliation???
“home-free”.
Seemms I remember the congress giving Barney Fag a vote of confidence after that sordid affair.
Secret GJ? Now suppose, just suppose this was about a Republican....
I’m with you. We get furious about these shenanigans in election years and then the heat wanes. We must fight this or we will surely lose what is left of fair elections.
..it would be held at "the green" with a free rock concert beforehand
Not.
Edwards is being shunned Amish-style. I saw him at the ACC tournament in Atlanta a couple of weeks ago and he looked very dour and no one was talking to him. Seriously, the people within a 10 foot radius fell silent when he walked through the Georgia Dome. We also saw him at the World of Coke with his kids and the same aura of silence around him occurred.
His local supporters feel betrayed and everyone else thinks he is a jerk.
What a glum looking Queee-ah
Not this Raleighite! I took one look at the man and knew that he was just another crooked Democrat! I can’t STAND that man. In fact, when he was John Kerry’s running mate in 2004, a few of us people who “hung out” on FreeRepublic.com went down to the fairgrounds and protested him when he made an appearance at the fairgrounds!
It near impossible to tell where the ever-shifting line on what is acceptable from a liberal politician is, but apparently, knocking up some harpie while your loyal wife is in the hospital dying of cancer is somewhere solidly south of it.
Did his wife die? I did not know that.
No, not yet.
a federal grand jury is investigating possible misuse of presidential campaign funds by John Edwards to pay off his mistress... Prominent Raleigh defense attorney and John Edwards' mentor Wade Smith declined to comment on whether he was representing Edwards before the grand jury investigation... The disgraced 2-time Presidential candidate began his career working for Wade Smith's law firm and they are long time friends. Last summer, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER caught Edwards visiting his mistress Rielle Hunter in the Beverly Hills Hilton. After vigorously denying the affair for months, Edwards admitted the affair on national television in August after the ENQUIRER published spy photos of Edwards holding his love child earlier that week.
No Controlling Legal Authority!
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