Have fun in the Pen, pretty boy.
Posted on 06/03/2011 7:17:47 AM PDT by DCBryan1
Edited on 06/03/2011 7:43:14 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
A federal grand jury has indicted two-time presidential candidate John Edwards in a campaign finance investigation.
The criminal charges filed Friday came after a two-year federal investigation into money used to cover up an extramarital affair during the 2008 presidential election.
Edwards, a former U.S. senator from North Carolina, said in a statement through his attorney in 2009 that he was confident no funds from his campaign were used improperly.
But federal officials have said the hundreds of thousands of dollars two Edwards donors gave to help keep his mistress in hiding were contributions that should have been reported publicly by his campaign fund because they aided his bid for the Democratic White House nomination.
For a campaign finance scandal that absolutely dwarfs this, Hillary paid no price whatsoever. Amazing.
She does have nice hair, though, let’s not forget.
I was just going to say that I hope he was able to get his hair done for this very important event!
Banner is up on Fox News...waiting for a more detailed link.
Soon to be ‘bitch-toy’.
Have fun in the Pen, pretty boy.
Update: John Edwards Indicted for Using Campaign Funds to Cover Up Affair.
Hussein is probably giddy over this. The Edwards story will likely knock the bad unemployment data news out of the headlines.
He’ll plead to lesser charges, pay back the money, give up his law license and that’s about it. I seriously doubt he goes to jail.
I’ll get excited when he’s convicted.
Ok..ok...I have to do it..
Re-posting from: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2724714/posts?page=30#30
Now, I think we should all take a moment to reflect on this, and show ourselves to be bigger people by NOT gloating or expressing any joy or pleasure over this news. We are, after all, adults, and better people, and, and, and....
ahh, never mind - I CAN’T STAND IT ANYMORE!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! FROG-MARCH PERP WALK COMING UP!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!! SILKY PONY’S GOING TO BE BUBBA’S LOVE SPONGE!!! HAHAHAH!
Whew...OK.. better now...what was I saying about being adults????
Edwards is probably wondering right now whether federal prisons provide appropriate hair care products...
LOL. Yeah right.
I agree. I don’t understand how they have gone after this guy when there are others who have done worse and are making themselves filthy rich off the American taxpayer. Hillary and Bill the rapist are two examples
Apparently Liz spent her final days preparing her oldest daughter (age 26?) for the task of raising the younger kids and set up her estate to separte and shelter her/their assets from his
Just look at what this man did and what he lost and what he did to his kids, for a few months of pooty tang with a new age nut-job.
Every time he is mentioned I think of the SNL skit where he goes in to see his tax accountant: “Mr. Edwards, as I recall, you need to update your filing status from ‘married’ to ‘disgusting’.”
Just look at what this man did and what he lost and what he did to his kids, for a few months of pooty tang with a new age nut-job.
Timing is everything. So, what should lead the news tonight, this or the continuing collapse of the US economy due to Obama?
People actually think he’ll do jail time? This is a waste of taxpayer money....just fine him....that will really hurt him.
It saddens and enrages me when I consider that nearly half of my countrymen wanted this man to be Vice President.
Now lets go after the girlfriend..The woman knew he was married and she is a slut and got pregnant anyway..I wonder how many abortions she had when she was with other men..Or maybe she stayed on the pill until she found a sucker like Edwards..
I’m almost indifferent on this one. He’s probably guilty and probably should go to prison for it, but he has not done serious damage to my country, nothing like the damage he did to his own family.
I’ll be excited when Obama joins him under indictment. In the history of the United States, no single person has done more damage to our country than the drug-addled communist from Chicago/Hawaii/Kenya/Indonesia, and I will be thrilled to pay all expenses for a lifetime stay in the appropriate federal penitentiary for that lazy community organizer.
That’s kind of what I thought.
MSM spiked the initial affair story for so long. Now, they’re getting this out there to help O’Bummer.
I agree. He won’t see a day in prison.
And I can say the same thing when it comes to Barack Obama.
Who by the way should also be indicted by a Federal Grand Jury. Obama has, and is still engaging, in more crimes and cover-ups than the Silky Pony.
So how comes Øbammie is still a free man?
HAMMER. NAIL. HEAD!
POST OF THE DAY!
What is it with Democrats and skags? They lose their careers over women aren’t worth a Pizza Hut date. I mean, Monica Lewinsky? Rielle Hunter? Most of the good looking ones give ‘em the 86.
ABC11 has learned that a federal grand jury has indicted former North Carolina senator and presidential candidate John Edwards.
He is facing several charges that include, conspiracy, illegal campaign fund usage and making false statements.
Well said.
RINOs don’t do much better, if you’ve seen the pictures of the baby mama who pumped up Ah-nold
How appropriate. Amazing that he had the attention and vote of many, many clueless Americans. This is why I belong to and donate to Free Republic.com......
....to out the commies, marxists, trotskites, leninists, stalinists, oligarchs, elite, aristocrats, liberals, progessives, RINOS, leftists, DUers, etc.
The case of USA v. Johnny Reid Edwards contains six counts, including conspiracy, four counts of illegal campaign contributions and one count of false statements. The indictment was returned in the Middle District of North Carolina Friday.
An Edwards spokeswoman said she wasn’t aware of the filing and declined immediate comment.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving weasel.....unless of course it happens to O’Kenyan.
What the heck is that picture?! I can’t be a photoshop job, can it?
WAKE UP MATT!
I wuddan done Arnuld’s even with Weiner’s weiner. But Arnuld touched everything but the third rail.
Man, when these guys fall, they fall hard.
It’s getting tougher and tougher to have faith in our leaders anymore. We’ve got the problem in both parties.
WRAL has it that a “warrant has been issued for his arrest”. This can’t mean that he’s heading for the lockup, can it? Isn’t this saying - we need you at the courthouse at such and such a time?
First shot in a mob war intended to put the Democrat Party firmly back in Clinton hands.
Barry will be having his meeting with the Godfather, sooner rather than later.
Who defended Sandy Berger’s “misdemeanor”?
So I bent a few rules ... so what!
I mean, can you stupid Freepers name a Rat politician who hasn't?
Just one?
TEXT:
Raleigh, N.C. — A federal grand jury has indicted two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards on four counts of illegal campaign contributions, one count of conspiracy and one count of false statements.
A warrant has been issued for his arrest, and he is expected to appear in a Winston-Salem courtroom Friday afternoon.
The indictment follows a high-profile investigation that lasted more than two years into how Edwards' 2008 campaign covered up his affair with staffer Rielle Hunter, who later gave birth to his daughter.
Edwards, a former U.S. senator from North Carolina, hasn't publicly discussed the investigation since releasing a statement through his attorney in 2009 in which he said he was confident no funds from his campaign were used improperly.
Although he considered a plea deal in the case, his Washington, D.C.-based attorney, Greg Craig, has asserted that Edwards didn't break any laws and that the government was chasing a misguided prosecution.
The federal investigation zeroed in on money from Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, a 100-year-old heiress to pharmaceutical and banking fortunes and a major donor to Edwards' campaign, and from wealthy Texas lawyer Fred Baron, who served as Edwards' campaign finance chairman.
Mellon gave $3.4 million in late 2007 to The Alliance for a New America, a nonprofit supporting Edwards' candidacy. Former Edwards aide Andrew Young wrote last year in his tell-all book, "The Politician," that Mellon also gave Edwards $700,000 as a gift for personal use.
Young told WRAL News in a 2010 interview that Mellon was in the dark about how her money – campaign workers commonly referred to the checks she wrote as "Bunny money" – was being used.
According to Young, Baron financed flights and paid $20,000 a month in rent on a California home for Hunter and Young's family during the period when Young pretended to be the father of Hunter's baby to protect Edwards from negative publicity.
Young also told WRAL News that Baron paid him $325,000 to finish his own home back in Chapel Hill so it could be sold when he moved to California.
Baron died from cancer in 2008, but his widow appeared before the federal grand jury in Raleigh in January. Investigators also interviewed Mellon twice at her estate in Virginia, and some of her family members testified before the grand jury in December.
Hunter, Young and other campaign insiders testified before the grand jury in 2009.
If Edwards goes to trial to fight the charges and loses, sentencing guidelines would factor in the money involved in the cover-up. A case involving $1 million to $2.5 million could signal a prison sentence of 51 to 63 months.
Edwards is expected to make a court appearance Friday afternoon in Winston Salem Middle District Courthouse.
She was shrewd enough to get herself knocked up by her very rich target and cash in. She hooked him and took him.
He'll be found dead of suicide before then. Want to take that bet?
Race.
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