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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 ...
Shailey Tripp, Todd Palin, the National Enquirer and a Journalistic Conundrum
By David Knowles - AOL NewsHave you heard the news reports? Todd Palin, the husband of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, is said to have been caught having an affair with Shailey Tripp, a 36-year-old massage therapist turned prostitution house madam. The problem with the allegations? They come to the world via the National Enquirer. Yes, that would be the same tabloid that first brought the world news of John Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter, as well as photos of Edwards holding his love child. That coverage even landed the paper, which often pays its sources for information, a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Here, then, ...
For John Edwards, Indictment in the Balance as Grand Jury Wraps Up Its Investigation
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyJust when you thought there was nothing more to say about John Edwards and his fall from grace, there's word that the grand jury weighing evidence against him for more than a year is expected to soon conclude its work. Then we'll know whether the two-time presidential candidate will be indicted on that evidence, or if federal prosecutors will close down the investigation into his finances that has dogged him since late 2008. The scandal that damaged Edwards' reputation and destroyed his marriage -- his affair with Rielle Hunter and the child he fathered with her even as his wife, Elizabeth, ...
Grand Jury Probes What John Edwards Knew About Spending
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- A federal criminal investigation targeting John Edwards is examining how much the two-time presidential candidate knew about money used to cover up his extramarital affair and out-of-wedlock child and whether other practices of his violated campaign finance laws, people involved in the case have told The Associated Press. A federal grand jury in Raleigh, N.C., is sifting records and testimony involving several political organizations and individuals connected to Edwards to determine if the former North Carolina senator and 2004 vice presidential nominee broke any laws. A ...
John Edwards Engagement: 5 Reasons the Rumor Spread So Quickly
By Yelena Shuster - AOL NewsJohn Edwards, the man who was once considered a top presidential candidate, now seems relegated to a new role as fodder for tabloids and gossip. On Wednesday, less than a month after Edwards' estranged wife, Elizabeth, died from breast cancer, the National Enquirer ran a story suggesting that Edwards had proposed to his mistress and the mother of his love child, Rielle Hunter. Several reputable news organizations ran with the news, albeit with requisite disclaimers about the suspect nature of the Enquirer's journalistic integrity. While neither Edwards nor Hunter has personally denied the ...
Elizabeth Edwards Can Cut John Out of Her Will, but Not Out of Her Legacy
By Julie Moos - Politics DailyWith death, Elizabeth Edwards has closure, but do we? The same day we learned that Edwards had left her entire estate to her children and nothing to her estranged husband, word followed that former vice presidential nominee John Edwards might be marrying Rielle Hunter, the woman with whom he fathered a child while his wife was diagnosed with incurable cancer. Maybe John Edwards will marry Rielle Hunter this summer, as the National Enquirer reports, and maybe he won't; the tabloid has been both right and wrong about Edwards, particularly about the couple's engagement, which the paper ...
Report: John Edwards Proposes to Rielle Hunter
By not in system - AOL NewsJohn Edwards has proposed to his mistress Rielle Hunter, The National Enquirer reported Thursday. A source told the tabloid that the disgraced former senator asked Hunter to marry him shortly after issuing a statement last year admitting that he was the father of her daughter, Frances Quinn. ...
John Edwards Has Proposed to Rielle Hunter, National Enquirer Says
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyJohn Edwards has proposed to his mistress Rielle Hunter, The National Enquirer reported Thursday. A source told the tabloid that the disgraced former senator asked Hunter to marry him shortly after issuing a statement last year admitting that he was the father of her daughter, Frances Quinn. However, the Daily Beast reported Friday that an Edwards spokeswoman has denied the Enquirer report. Edwards, a one-time presidential candidate, "is buying a luxury $3.5 million beachfront home where they can live happily ever after with their love child," the Enquirer said. The couple will wed this ...
Elizabeth Edwards Leaves John Edwards Out of Will, Gives Everything to Kids
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyThe late Elizabeth Edwards willed everything she owned to her three children, leaving her estranged, well-to-do husband, former Sen. John Edwards, without so much as a mention. Edwards, who died of breast cancer on Dec. 7, named her oldest daughter, Catherine, 28, as executor, CNN reported. "All of my furniture, furnishings, households goods, jewelry, china, silverware and personal effects and any automobiles . . . to be divided among them," she wrote in a document dated Dec. 1. Besides Catherine, the will also names daughter Emma, 12, and son John, 10. A copy was published online by "Inside ...
Women to Watch (and Watch Out for) in 2011
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyHere at Politics Daily, we've been recalling strong women whose terms sadly ended in 2010. On the year's last weekend, the New York Times' annual year-end roundup, "The Lives They Lived," paid appropriate tribute to film actor Lynn Redgrave, whose title role in 1966's "Georgy Girl" validated and emboldened women to love and appreciate their non-hourglass body shapes. The Times' idiosyncratic list, however, left off Jill Clayburgh, whose 1978 portrayal of an unmarried woman did more for single-girl empowerment than former Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown could ever have hoped for. (Brown, ...
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