Posted on 05/31/2012 1:35:00 PM PDT by C19fan
The jury in the federal campaign finance case against former Senator John Edwards said Thursday that it had found him not guilty on one of the six counts against him, and the judge declared a mistrial on the others.
The verdict came on the third count, which involved donations from the heiress Rachel Mellon. Mrs. Mellon gave more than $725,000 to help Mr. Edwards during his 2008 presidential campaign, during which large sums were spent to cover up an affair between Mr. Edwards and a former staff videographer, Rielle Mellon, with whom he conceived a daughter.
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I don't have that much problem with the law. The only problem is that Edwards didn't even violate that.
I’m going to use that. Perfect!
The trial wasn’t covered extensively so I’m only going by the statement made by one of the US officials today on FNC. He said their hands were tied and the jurors were kept in the dark on many of the details they could not bring to light.
The trial wasn’t covered extensively so I’m only going by the statement made by one of the US officials today on FNC. He said their hands were tied and the jurors were kept in the dark on many of the details they could not bring to light.
The trial wasn’t covered extensively so I’m only going by the statement made by one of the US officials today on FNC. He said their hands were tied and the jurors were kept in the dark on many of the details they could not bring to light.
“TEFLON John!”
The “TEFLON John!”
I sure am glad you put this in Breaking News. I might have missed it. Yesterday.
More likely that 1. or 2.: 3. Prosecution successfully drained the defendant’s funds in the first trial, so the defense consists of a Public Defender.
100% wrong. Gutty jury. Idiot prosecutors. As usual.
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