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By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Prosecutors investigating former Sen. John Edwards spent several hours Thursday re-interviewing the man who posed as the father of Edwards' out-of-wedlock baby during the 2008 presidential campaign, suggesting they are weighing the strength of their chief witness before deciding whether to indict the former candidate. Andrew Young met with the prosecutors in his attorney's Washington office for more than four hours. The Associated Press spotted him leaving the building's underground garage in a vehicle with a North Carolina license plate registered to his wife, Cheri, at their ...
Charges May Be Near in John Edwards Sex Scandal
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsProsecutors may soon bring criminal charges against former presidential candidate John Edwards, who is being investigated about possible misuse of campaign donations to cover up his affair and love child with Rielle Hunter. Edwards could be indicted by a federal grand jury in days or weeks, NBC News reported today, citing anonymous sources close to the investigation. The Justice Department is still reviewing the case, sources told the network, but could allow prosecutors to bring charges against Edwards. WRAL-TV said prosecutors will say whether they have decided to indict Edwards in late ...
Did Stonehenge's Builders Use Ball Bearings?
By Lee Speigel - AOL News
(Nov. 24) -- When it comes to mystical places on Earth, few can rival Stonehenge -- the enigmatic stone monument sitting on the Salisbury Plain of southern England. And now comes a new theory that suggests the Neolithic builders who erected Stonehenge may have used ball bearings to move the giant stones into place. Aligned in a circle and made up of 30 vertical standing stones -- called megaliths -- over 10 feet tall and weighing many tons, Stonehenge is believed to be somewhere between 3,000 and 5,000 years old. An archaeological study, the Stonehenge Riverside Project, suggested in 2008 ...
American Political Sex Scandals: What Would We Do Without Them?
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyAmerica is a country, thankfully, that loves sex and political power. Think it's a modern phenomenon? Hardly. The country's Founding Fathers pioneered it. Take an event that happened during this month more than 200 years ago. On Sept. 1, 1802, the "Richmond Recorder" published a piece about Thomas Jefferson and his mistress, a slave simply known as "Sally." At the time, Jefferson was temporarily retired from politics and was spending a great amount of time on his Virginia plantation, Monticello. But he had collected an army of enemies, and they knew Jefferson liked to indulge in hanky ...
Elizabeth Edwards Says It Wasn't Easy to Leave John
By not in system - AOL NewsRALEIGH, N.C. (June 29) - Elizabeth Edwards says it was not easy to leave her husband in the wake of the two-time presidential contender's infidelity, writing in a new chapter to her memoir that she still sees in him the memories of their 30 years together. Edwards says in the updated version of her book released Tuesday that she spent two years trying to "reinvent" her role as a wife so that they could stay together despite the affair. But she says the "tender thread" holding the family together unraveled at the very end of 2009 - three years after John Edwards first told his wife in private ...
John Edwards and 'Camera Girl' Rielle Hunter: Did Reporters Miss the Picture?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyThe latest evidence that John Edwards deserves a lifetime achievement award for most reckless, narcissistic behavior by a presidential candidate: He and Rielle Hunter, aka Camera Girl, didn't use birth control during their lengthy affair. At least that's what Hunter told Oprah Winfrey on Thursday. That may have been Edwards' worst mistake. Hunter says hers was agreeing to let Edwards aide Andrew Young take responsibility for fathering her child. That decision, at the behest of Edwards and with the incomprehensible acquiescence of Young, might have been the low point of one of the most ...
Former John Edwards Staffer Could End Up In Jail Over Sex Tape
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA North Carolina judge said he was considering sending former John Edwards staffer Andrew Young and his wife, Cheri, to jail for not turning over all copies of a sex tape featuring the onetime presidential candidate and his mistress, Rielle Hunter. Superior Court Judge Abraham Jones said Tuesday that the couple had not been truthful about the number of copies made of the tape and how many people have seen it, the Raleigh News & Observer reported. The judge gave the couple until Friday to account for discrepancies in their story about the handling of the tape and other items related to a ...
Ex-Edwards Aide Narrowly Avoids Jail
By not in system - AOL NewsPITTSBORO, N.C. (March 9) -- A former John Edwards aide has narrowly avoided getting sent to jail for contempt over his handling of a purported sex tape showing the former presidential candidate. Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones has given Andrew Young until Friday afternoon to account for how he handled various items sought by Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter. Jones told Young on Tuesday he was "troubled" by discrepancies in the statements that Young has made in court. Lawyers for Hunter are trying to recover the tape and other items they say belong to Hunter. Her lawyers have ...
Former John Edwards Staffer in Contempt of Court Over Sex Tape
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA North Carolina judge has found former John Edwards staffer Andrew Young and his wife, Cheri, in contempt of court for not turning over a sex tape featuring the onetime presidential candidate and his mistress, Rielle Hunter.Superior Court Judge Abraham Jones ruled Friday that the Youngs have until Wednesday to turn over the tape, the Raleigh, N.C.News and Observer reported.The judge told the couple that while he chose not to have them arrested, he could place them in custody at any time. After the hearing, the Youngs said they would have no problem with turning the tape and other materials ...
Edwards' Ex-Mistress Wants 'Private' Tape Returned
By not in system - AOL NewsHILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (Jan. 29) - The ex-mistress of two-time presidential candidate John Edwards wants a "very private and personal" videotape back from a campaign aide who wrote a book about the politician, according to court documents. Rielle Hunter was granted a temporary restraining order against former Edwards loyalist Andrew Young in a North Carolina court. It seeks the return of photos and videos, including one she says she made in 2006 while working for Edwards. "In or about September 2006, using my video camera, I authored a personal video recording that depicted matters of a very ...
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