Posted on 04/18/2011 7:02:38 PM PDT by 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.
To good to be true.
National Enquirer, plus this conclusion comes from his comment “I’d kill myself before I’d go to jail.” OTOH, batted 1.000 on the rest of this story.
John,
I can help.
Elizabeth’s revenge.
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?
The Silky Pony is all played out...
He won't settle for the juzcao
BUT....
No longer able to ride 'em... & rope 'em....
(yes.... correct vowel)
Sounds like the end of the trail....
Off to the Great Roundup...
Sad story... all around...
Jail; that “other” America Johnny was talking about on the campaign...
This is the man MILLIONS of liberals wanted for out President ...threatening to kill himself if he is forced to answer for his own actions.
(Damn! I wish this website had an edit function.
Anybody know if Rielle is still his eternal soul mate?
... and prep-h for when the rope breaks...
The suicide talk is an attempt to persuade the judge in advance.
At least Martha Stewart didn’t act like a baby.............
Who can he sue now?
and if he got elected, they would have been willing to burn the world to make sure he never did have to answer for it.
He just needs some good Cellies for company. Obama..Gore..etc.
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