John Edwards suicidal over possible jail time, magazine claims

WBTV (NC) ^ | Apr 06, 2011

[presidio9]

A newspaper claims former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards would reportedly kill himself before he is forced to go to jail.

Edwards is under investigation for improperly using campaign funds to cover up an affair he had with a woman in which a child was conceived while he was still married to the late Elizabeth Edwards.

A grand jury has been meeting near Raleigh, and recently, a key witness in the case was re-interviewed.

According to The Daily Mail, the National Enquirer has written that Edwards told a friend, 'I won't go to jail. I'd kill myself first!'

The statement was reportedly made after Edwards' legal team informed him in early March that there was a strong chance that he could be indicted.

According to the National Enquirer, Edwards has lost nearly 20 pounds in the past year and his friends believe he has been "escaping reality" with alcohol.

"I think John is suicidal," a friend of Edwards reportedly told the Enquirer. "He knows that if he's indicted, prosecutors will try to get him to serve jail time and make an example of him."

The Enquirer says Edwards is also concerned about what will happen to his children if he winds up in jail.

"John isn't hiding the fact that he's terrified of going to prison," a source told the Enquirer. "But he's also extremely distraught about what will happen to his children."

Former campaign aide, Andrew Young, wrote in his tell-all book that 100-year-old heiress Bunny Mellon gave Edwards a gift in the amount of $700,000. Young claims that money helped fund the cover-up of Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter, who at the time, was pregnant with Edwards' out-of-wedlock child.

Andrew Young also told WRAL TV in a previous interview that Fred Baron, a wealthy attorney in Texas, financed flights and paid rent on a California home for Hunter.

"I heard one of the jets used for Rielle to fly around the country was $55,000 to $60,000," said Young.

Young went on to say the house in which Baron rented for Hunter cost $20,000 a month. Baron died from cancer in 2008, but his widow testified in front of the Grand Jury in Raleigh earlier this year.

Investigators have also interviewed Mellon twice, and some of her family members have also testified before the Grand Jury. Young says Mellon never knew what her donation was used for.

Mellon's donation and the alleged cover-up of Edwards' affair with Hunter are the focus of the Grand Jury's investigation which could result in an indictment against Edwards.

[B4Ranch]

I’ll donate $5 in case he’s nervous and requires a second, third, fourth, ........., attempt.

[Lockbar]

Please ,please, please. And your hideous girlfriend, too.

[prairiebreeze]

Wow Bunny, how about shoveling some of that money my way? I promise to put it to much better use than Johnny did.

All that said, what a tragic case for everybody involved. Satan has certainly been at work in these people. Gotta feel sorry for Edward’s kids.

[Georgia Girl 2]

“you sure have a pretty mouth”

Down south its “purty mouth”

[xp38]

The Toon and 0 would probably react in a similar manner.

[Palladin]

Bunny Mellon!

Was she a stripper when she was young?

[Talisker]

Edwards is afraid he'll commit Arkancide in jail.

Edwards started Hillary's kick to the curb with the phrase, "Now, Hillary" during an early 3-way debate. Obama was there and double-teamed with Edwards, but that was the moment when Her Heinous realized that she was not going to be coronated, but would actually have to fight a campaign.

It was an intoxicatingly delicious moment.

Here's a snapshot of The Creature when the realization started to hit:

And here's a discussion of part of it.

People forget, but Edwards wife was a really close friend of Hillary's and very much as nasty and sadistically cruel as her mentor. Given how fundamentally rotten Silky Pony is, it's easy to blame Elizabeth for Edward's problems now.

But John Edwards isn't fooled.

He knows Hillary wants to make an example of him, as a message to anyone who wants to be a traitor this time around, when she goes for the brass ring yet again.

On the other hand, anyone who actually believes she'd ever forgive anyone's betrayal of her is a fool, and deserves what she'll inevitably give them.

In other words, it's way, way too late for anyone to go back now! LOL!

[databoss]

Too much of a chicken $h1t to do himself...

[DLfromthedesert]

True, but they don’t need to be traumatized any more; losing their mother; the breakup of the family, etc.

[chooseascreennamepat]

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

What’s taking so long? I thought this grand jury was wrapped up over a month ago.

[Ax]

Had the worst happened (a Kerry-Edwards victory), this wanker would’ve been “a heartbeat away.”

[DLfromthedesert]

$100,000 fine for you!!

[null and void]

Meme?

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

You’d think jail would be like Disneyland to the Breck girl. Didn’t Martha Stewart learn all about tongue & groove cabinetry and such in prison?

Unfortunately for the pretty little Breck girl, in prison, he will learn all about tongue & groove, but nothing at all about cabinetry.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Y did so many people vote for him? Stuff like that doesn’t seem to matter to those nitwits.

[Avery Iota Kracker]

As a northern who lived in Dixie for six years, the whole “I’m gonna kill myself” among distressed males surprised me. I couldn’t believe my ears. And I learned not to believe the complaint, too, it doesn’t mean anything. It’s a hyperbolic whine.

[Chode]

[Mountain Mary]

“So he’s not worried about what would happen to his children?” The kids would be better off being raised by their sister, Cate.

[Mountain Mary]

Bunny Mellon was a loaded socialite in the Kennedy world.
Pony Girl tricked her into believing that her generous contributions would be used to get him elected.
What doofuses: both of them. They deserved each other.

Who is the hero here? Andrew Young: never liked him but I do now.