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Government Re-Interviews Edwards Witness
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 ...
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 ...
Florida Boy, 8, Arrested at School for 5th Time
By Lisa Holewa - AOL NewsAn 8-year-old boy who's been arrested five times since November for assaulting teachers at his Florida school has been released from juvenile detention because the judge said he's too young and small to be held. But the adjudicator chastised the pupil's mother for not getting him help. "He is your responsibility. We really do not want to be involved in his life," Orange County Judge Alicia Latimore told the boy's mother during a court appearance Friday. The boy, arrested for the fifth time last week, appeared in court surrounded by three Orange County Sheriff's deputies, WFTV in Orlando ...
OJ Simpson Beaten? Doubt Cast on National Enquirer Story
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsThe National Enquirer can't let go of the idea that O.J. Simpson is being assaulted and harassed in prison. The rumor made the rounds anew this week, with several media outlets picking up the tabloid's sensational story (headline: O.J. Beaten Unconscious in Brutal Prison Attack!). According to the Enquirer, Simpson was beaten "to a bloody pulp" by fellow inmates at Nevada's Lovelock Correctional Center after a group of white supremacists overheard him bragging about his "sexual conquests of beautiful white women." In 2007, Simpson began serving a nine-year sentence for his alleged ...
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 ...
Sarah Palin Won't Be Ignored (but Dana Milbank, Others Ought to Be)
By Sandra Fish - Politics DailySo, columnist Dana Milbank at the Washington Post has vowed not to write a word about Sarah Palin during the month of February. "I feel powerless to control my obsession, even though it cheapens and demeans me," he wrote recently. We here at Woman Up won't be joining Milbank. We, too, occasionally tire of writing about the former Alaska governor, one of the growing legion of Republicans toying with the idea of a 2012 presidential bid. We're not always thrilled with her. But Palin is brilliant at attracting media attention while also avoiding the media. She proved herself a heavy political ...
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, ...
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 ...
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