John Edwards indicted.
A federal grand jury on Friday indicted former Sen. John Edwards on felony charges that he violated campaign-finance laws by accepting more than $900,000 from donors, in part to conceal an extramarital affair and resulting pregnancy.
Prosecutors alleged that Mr. Edwards violated the laws by conspiring to direct money from two political donors to his mistress, Rielle Hunter, and to former Edwards aide Andrew Young, whom Mr. Edwards initially named as the child's father. The aim was to keep Mr. Edwards's 2008 presidential campaign viable, prosecutors alleged. The centerpiece of the campaign was "his public image as a family man," the indictment says.
The media, you may recall, made a point of looking the other way during the Edwards/Hunter affair, presumably so as not to damage his 2008 presidential chances. It was the National Enquirer who finally broke the story.
Comments