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Grand Jury Investigating John Edwards Expected to Report Soon
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyIt's hard to feel too sorry for John Edwards, once a golden boy in Democratic politics and now scorned for the way he betrayed his wife and made her last years harder than they should have been. Elizabeth Edwards succumbed to her cancer last year, and in the months since, Edwards has kept a very low profile, moving back into the family home in Chapel Hill, N.C., that he had left when he and Elizabeth separated. But according to an exhaustively reported story in The New York Times, Edwards' self-inflicted solitude could soon come to an end. Related Stories For John ...
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, ...
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. ...
Elizabeth Edwards' Family Gathers as Her Cancer Spreads
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyElizabeth Edwards was surrounded by her family and friends in North Carolina late Monday as news came that her terminal cancer had spread to her liver. Elizabeth Edwards, 61, the estranged wife of former presidential contender John Edwards, has battled cancer since 2004. She was diagnosed with breast cancer during the waning weeks of the 2004 presidential election when John Edwards was the vice-presidential nominee for Sen. John Kerry. The news of Elizabeth Edwards' deterioration was reported by numerous news outlets, including WRAL.com, a website for the Raleigh-Durham area. The website ...
Amen, Sister: Joycelyn Elders' Call for More Sexual Frankness
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyOne lesson I've learned: When people feel repressed -- when they feel sex is shameful -- an underworld of sexual activity bubbles below the surface of society. I discovered that reality when I wrote "Sex in the South: Unbuckling the Bible Belt" a few years ago. The South has always been a region of moral conservatism and Bible thumping, with churches on every corner to remind people of their shame and sin. I was reminded of that truth when I read a recent sex survey of 5,865 men and women aged 14 to 94 that has gotten a lot of press attention. The survey, the largest nationally ...
Elizabeth Edwards: 'Not Just a Cuckolded Wife'
By Lisa Flam - AOL News(June 30) -- Elizabeth Edwards says her husband's mistress is so different from her it's hard to understand how he could have been attracted to both women. But, in her first TV interview since separating from two-time presidential candidate John Edwards earlier this year, she says people, perhaps everyone, change over time. In an interview to be broadcast today on NBC's "Today" show, Edwards, 60, says she needs to "break free of the media-imposed image" of her. "I'm not just a cuckolded wife," Edwards said, adding that she wants to "reclaim who I am." "I hope the next time I am on ...
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 ...
Rielle Hunter 'Doesn't Think She's a Home Wrecker'
By not in system - AOL NewsCHICAGO (April 28) -- John Edwards' mistress said the former presidential candidate's wife didn't know about the full extent of their relationship until after he gave an interview to ABC News correspondent Bob Woodruff admitting the affair. "She didn't know until after the interview," Rielle Hunter told Oprah Winfrey about Elizabeth Edwards in quotes provided Wednesday by Harpo Productions. "He came clean with her after that interview." Hunter's full interview with Winfrey is to air on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on Thursday. ...
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