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Edwards faces six felony counts related to campaign finance violations in trying to cover up the affair with his mistress, Rielle Hunter. The jury has the following instructions, according to the AP: To convict Edwards, U.S. District Court Judge ...  

GREENSBORO, N.C. – With the jury at the John Edwards trial set to begin deliberations for a seventh day on Tuesday, speculation grows that the 12 people charged with deciding the fate of the former presidential candidate may be deadlocked.Edwards faces six felony charges in a case involving nearly $1 million provided by two wealthy political donors to help hide the Democrat's pregnant mistress as he sought the White House in 2008.To determine...  

John Edwards is currently on trial for misuse of presidential campaign funds, which he allegedly spent on his mistress, Rielle Hunter, while his wife was ill with the cancer that would eventually take her life. It is scandal of the highest caliber possible, and we would have said that even before reading this report from an ABC newsman covering the trial. Since the alternates were identified last Thursday, it has been impossible to ignore the...  

Jurors in the trial of John Edwards entered their fourth day of deliberations this morning. The 58-year-old former presidential candidate is charged with violating campaign finance laws in connection with nearly $1 million from Texas trial lawyer Fred Baron and heiress Rachel "Bunny" Mellon that was used to hide his affair with videographer Rielle Hunter.read more  

Cate Edwards was expected to testify in her father's campaign finance trial, but did not take the stand. The defense said they plan to call her tomorrow and could call John Edwards himself, as well as his former mistress, Rielle Hunter, tomorrow.  

John Edwards' defense team rested Wednesday without calling the two-time Democratic presidential candidate or his one-time mistress to the witness stand, a sign of confidence after presenting little more than two days of testimony and evidence.  

GREENSBORO, N.C. — It’s come to this: in a trial steeped in salacious private revelations, jurors now even know how long Rielle Hunter’s menstrual cycles typically lasted. That would be four to five days, in case you’re wondering. This last tidbit of information was read to a federal jury here Wednesday by Abbe Lowell, the lead defense attorney for former senator John Edwards, who is accused of violating campaign finance laws by allegedly...  

Lawyers for former Sen. John Edwards rested their case in his campaign finance corruption trial Wednesday morning without calling Edwards or his onetime mistress, Rielle Hunter. Crowds had lined up two hours before court opened in Greensboro, N ...  

Click image to see more photos. (AP/File) John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter was given $9,000 a month in cash for living expenses by his campaign finance chairman in 2008, according to records introduced at the former candidate's corruption trial on Tuesday. Fred Baron, the former finance chairman of Edwards' 2008 campaign, began making regular deposits into Hunter's checking account in June 2008. Edwards, who by then...  

Updated at 6:55 p.m. ET: John Edwards' defense lawyers said Tuesday they might call both Edwards and Rielle Hunter, his mistress and the mother of his youngest daughter, to the stand Wednesday in his campaign finance corruption trial.  

However, defense lawyers presented intimate details of mistress Rielle Hunter's menstrual cycle, in an effort to pinpoint the date she realized she was pregnant. That information could cast doubt on the prosecution claims that Edwards was trying to cover ...  

His lawyers rested their case without calling his former mistress, Rielle Hunter, or his loyal daughter, Cate Edwards Upham, to testify. The defense had put on only a handful of witnesses, suggesting Team Edwards feels the prosecution’s case ...  

CTV.caDefense rests its case in John Edwards trial, without Rielle HunterLos Angeles TimesBy Richard Simon The defense in ex-Sen. John Edwards' campaign finance trial rested its case Wednesday without the former presidential candidate or his former mistress taking the stand. Edwards' attorneys ended their defense after just three days — in ...John Edwards's defense rests following medical details about Rielle HunterWashington PostRecommended...  

She had him at "You are so hot." Not exactly the standard greeting for a former senator seeking the highest office in the country, but with that three-word come on, Rielle Hunter, a sometime videographer with a passion for astrology, bewitched ...  

The defense in ex-Sen. John Edwards’ campaign finance trial rested its case Wednesday without the former presidential candidate or his former mistress taking the stand. Edwards’ attorneys ended their defense after just three days — in ...  

(c) 2012, The Washington Post. GREENSBORO, N.C. — The lead defense attorney for John Edwards dangled the possibility that the former presidential candidate and his former mistress, Rielle Hunter, might be called as witnesses on Wednesday in a ...  

The nearly $1 million in donations used to hide John Edwards' mistress and love child were not campaign contributions, the Federal Election Commission concluded, according to documents filed in Edwards' trial. The FEC audit of Edwards' 2008 ...  

GREENSBORO, N.C. — It’s come to this: in a trial steeped in salacious private revelations, jurors now even know how long Rielle Hunter’s menstrual cycles typically lasted. That would be four to five days, in case you’re wondering.  

Prosecutors spent nearly three weeks trying to convince a jury that Edwards masterminded a conspiracy to use nearly ... to throw out the criminal case against him. "After all these years, I finally get my day in court and people get to hear ...  

Prosecutors say the Mellon payments, along with $200,000 from Edwards' campaign finance chairman, were illegal campaign contributions intended to cover up Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter and save his campaign from collapsing in scandal.  

She's the witness everyone is anxiously awaiting at the John Edwards trial. The courtroom is packed daily with anticipation, with talk of setting up an overflow room for extra reporters if she appears. Rielle Hunter, the mistress with whom ...  

But now Hunter, known in part for being unpredictable ... In April 2010, after the daughter she had with John Edwards turned 2, Hunter gave her first interview about the affair to GQ magazine. If she tried to depict her affair with Edwards ...  

John Edwards has decided not to take the stand in his own defense, avoiding what would have undoubtedly been a blistering grilling about his credibility.  

"Taking the stand, talking about her father, how much family mattered — I think it could be powerful evidence for John Edwards," said Hampton ... Judge Catherine Eagles ruled out a major part of the defense case Monday, saying jurors wouldn ...  

The charges were tied to nearly $1 million from Texas trial lawyer Fred Baron and heiress Rachel "Bunny" Mellon that was used to hide the affair he had with videographer Rielle Hunter while his wife, Elizabeth, was dying of cancer. In 2007 ...  

The prosecution rested its conspiracy case against John Edwards in Greensboro, N.C., on Thursday without calling Rielle Hunter, his former mistress, ending speculation that she would be asked to testify against the former presidential candidate. But Hunter, whose name appeared on witness lists submitted before the trial by both the defense and the prosecution, could [...]  

Prosecutors said Edwards "knowingly and willingly" accepted nearly $1 million in contributions from two wealthy donors to hide former mistress Rielle Hunter and her pregnancy, and then concealed the donations from the public by filing false and ...  

Edwards, 58, is accused of six campaign finance law violations for allegedly diverting donor money into a slush fund used to hide a pregnant Hunter while he was running for President in 2007 and 2008. The defense claims the money wasn’t ...  

* Edwards learned of donation in August 2008-friend * Daughter may testify on Tuesday By Colleen Jenkins GREENSBORO, NC, May 15 (Reuters) - Former U.S. Senator John Edwards looked surprised when he learned in 2008 that a wealthy donor had funneled money to an aide, an Edwards confidante testified on Tuesday as his defense sought to refute charges that Edwards had solicited the funds...  

Former United States Senator John Edwards admitted today to ABC News that he had an extramarital affair with novice filmmaker Rielle Hunter while his wife was in remission with cancer. Edwards has denied being the father of Hunter's child, Frances Quinn ...  

According to ABC, if the jury in the John Edwards corruption trial finds him not guilty, he may attempt to return to the political arena. As we know, Edwards is being charged with channeling campaign funds to his mistress and the mother of his child, Rielle Hunter, which is apparently against the law. John Edwards may [...]  

If the donations he got for Rielle Hunter were “campaign contributions,” then yes. Otherwise not. Those are the rules. I don’t like them. I don’t think anyone should go to jail for accepting money to run a political campaign. But liberal Democrats like John Edwards set these rules; now they have to live by them. So was the money given by Edwards’ heiress friend Rachel “Bunny” Mellon a “campaign contribution?” Or merely a “gift,” as Edwards...  

John Edwards’ mistress stepped out with their child in North Carolina this week as more shocking allegations about the disgraced presidential hopeful came to light. Rielle Hunter, who was a videographer on Edwards’ 2008 presidential campaign, was ...  

David McGlynnJohn Edwards arrives to court Thursday. Rielle Hunter wasn’t John Edwards’ only love bunny. Elderly heiress and big-time financial backer Rachel “Bunny” Mellon had a huge crush on him, the dowager’s close friend testified yesterday in the disgraced pol’s criminal trial. The now 101-year-old millionaire was...  

Updated at 6:46 p.m. ET: John Edwards' fate is now in the hands of 12 anonymous jurors who will begin wading Friday through three weeks of at-times emotional, dramatic and intricate testimony about the former presidential candidate's affair with Rielle Hunter.  

The jurors who will decide the fate of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards in his campaign finance case began their deliberations at 10 a.m. Friday.At issue is whether Edwards illegally used nearly $1 million from two wealthy donors to hide his relationship with Rielle Hunter and her pregnancy while he was seeking the 2008 presidential nomination.On Friday morning, Judge Catherine Eagles divided the 16 people who have heard...  

Bottom Line Can John Edwards recover a career from this scandal? That's the question we're answering today on The Bottom Line. First things first.  Tomorrow the jury takes his fate in their hands, deciding whether he broke federal campaign laws with those payments funneled to Rielle Hunter.  A guilty verdict means up to 30 years [...]  

At the end of court Friday, the Government said it expected to wrap its case up by next Thursday. It provided the names of the next six witnesses it would call, and Rielle Hunter wasn't one of them. Alexander Forger, Bunny Mellon's lawyer, will be back on the stand Monday morning, to face cross-examination by Team Edwards. Why would the Government not call Rielle Hunter? First, even though she has immunity from prosecution, she...  

The jury in the John Edwards trial will begin deliberating when the courthouse in Greensboro opens Friday morning.The interest in the trial came from the story the prosecution laid out as its focus.  They detailed Edwards’ affair with Rielle Hunter and the elaborate efforts to cover it up.Legal analysts said the prosecution is trying to build a motive for why Edwards would want to cover up his affair to save his campaign.But, defense lawyers...  

Attorneys for John Edwards say they will not call the former presidential candidate or his mistress Rielle Hunter to testify at his campaign corruption trial. Defense attorneys also told a federal judge they expect to rest their case later Wednesday.  

Rielle told me she  {Elizabeth] was out speaking again. What the hell for? What is she speaking about and who the hell cares?? Did you ever follow up with those people she fired? I bet andrew young would talk off the record about what a freak ...  

CHRIS KEANE FOR THE NEW YORK POSCheri Young leaves the federal court house Friday. GREENSBORO, NC – John Edwards would kick his top aide’s family out of their own home for entire days so that he could quality alone time with mistress Rielle Hunter, the wife of his former staffer...  

Attorneys for John Edwards say they will not call the former presidential candidate or his mistress Rielle Hunter to testify at his campaign corruption trial. Defense attorneys also told a federal judge they expect to rest their case later Wednesday.  

The finale in the prosecution of John Edwards today may feature Leo Hindery, a political backer who witnessed Edwards' desperate attempt to salvage a top level job from Barack Obama even after Edwards' mistress gave birth to his love child. Conspicuous by her absence will be Rielle Hunter, Edwards' lover who had his baby while Edwards was seeking the 2008 presidential nomination.  

Closing arguments were delivered in the John Edwards corruption trial on Thursday in Greensboro, N.C., with prosecutors telling the jury that Edwards knew exactly what he was doing in 2008 when in using nearly $1 million in campaign funds to cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter, and lawyers for the former presidential candidate arguing [...]  

A prosecutor used John Edwards' own stump speech against him in closing arguments at his corruption trial Thursday, saying the presidential candidate violated campaign finance laws meant to protect "the two Americas" in order to cover up a lurid sex scandal.Edwards is accused of orchestrating a scheme to take about $1 million from two wealthy campaign donors to hide his pregnant mistress Rielle Hunter while he ran for the White House in 2008...  

Rielle Hunter, the woman who was spirited into hiding in December 2007 while pregnant with John Edwards' baby, will not be called by prosecutors in the trial of the former Democratic presidential candidate.  

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Attorneys for John Edwards say they will not call the former presidential candidate or his mistress Rielle Hunter to testify at his campaign corruption trial. Defense attorneys also told a federal judge they expect to rest...  

GREENSBORO, N.C. (KABC) -- The government plans to rest its case Thursday in the corruption trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards without calling Rielle Hunter to testify. Wednesday, former Edwards campaign spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri ...  

John Edwards’ defense team revealed yesterday that the disgraced politician’s wacky mistress, Rielle Hunter, may testify in her baby-daddy’s defense. Hunter, whose business card reads, “Being is free,” is at the center of the federal criminal case against Edwards, who is charged with using $1 million in unreported...  

John Edwards concluded his defense today. Neither he, his daughter Cate nor Rielle Hunter testified. The Government apparently did not call rebuttal witnesses. Jury instructions will be argued this afternoon and closing arguments will be tomorrow. The jury will likely begin deliberating Friday. I think Edwards absolutely made the right decision. He has no burden to prove anything. Had he testified, the Government would have...  

John Edwards has never spoken publicly about his feelings for Rielle Hunter, but thanks to his federal corruption trial, plenty of other people are. His former speechwriter, Wendy Button, testified Tuesday. She said Edwards admitted he loved Hunter, though ...  

Palmieri was under cross-examination by defense lawyer Abbe Lowell after testifying for prosecutors about a rancorous October 2007 Iowa hotel meeting in which Elizabeth Edwards was angry at Baron and his wife Lisa Blue. The Texas couple had taken Hunter on ...  

Before John Edwards admitted to fathering a child with mistress Rielle Hunter, he reached out to Hollywood friends including Sean Penn, Madeleine Stowe and Crash director Paul Haggis, a witness testified Wednesday. The former presidential ...  

GREENSBORO, NC — Finally, John Edwards may get his mistress to keep quiet. The disgraced ex-senator would be foolish to call baby mama Rielle Hunter to testify in his defense — which begins today — because she’ll likely do way more harm than good for his case, legal experts said. “I think...  

The defense in the John Edwards trial rested on Wednesday. Attorneys for the former presidential candidate and vice presidential nominee did not call Edwards, his daughter or Rielle Hunter, the woman he had an affair with and who bore his child. Edwards is accused of skirting federal campaign finance laws by accepting secret payments to cover up the affair and further his political ambitions. North Carolina Public Radio's Jeff Tiberii speaks...  

USA TODAYEdwards, Hunter won't testify in trialUSA TODAYBy Catalina Camia, USA TODAY Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards will not take the stand in his trial on campaign finance charges. The Associated Press says Edwards' lawyers will not call on him or Rielle Hunter, the campaign ...John Edwards, Rielle Hunter, will not testifyCBS NewsJohn Edwards, Rielle Hunter won't take witness stand in campaign finance caseNew York Daily...  

Steve Exum/Getty Images(GREENSBORO ... they will take the potentially risky move of calling the former presidential hopeful's mistress Rielle Hunter to testify. Edwards is on trial for allegedly using campaign donations to hide his affair with Hunter ...  

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Attorneys for John Edwards say they will not call the former presidential candidate or his mistress Rielle Hunter to testify at his campaign corruption trial.Defense attorneys also told a federal judge they expect to rest their case later Wednesday.Hunter could have echoed Edwards' position that he didn't have direct knowledge of the secret effort to care for her and keep her out of the public eye. But she could have...  

The end of the John Edwards trial came into view Tuesday as his defense team told the judge that only three potential defense witnesses remain – the defendant, his daughter, Cate, and his former mistress, Rielle Hunter.Defense Attorney Abbe Lowell announced the list while informing Judge Catherine Eagles at the end of Tuesday’s proceedings that the defense could rest on Wednesday or Thursday. The defense might also recall the government’s...  

Prosecution witnesses keep helping the defense to some degree, and courtroom observers are waiting to see if his mistress, and the defendant himself, testify. Anna Werner reports. Then, Erin Moriarty of "48 Hours Mystery" talks to Jeff Glor and Rebecca Jarvis about the trial to date.  

John Edwards has never spoken publicly about his feelings for Rielle Hunter, but new testimony offers insight into his relationship with his mistress with whom he has a daughter. His former speechwriter Wendy Button testified Tuesday at the ...  

GREENSBORO, NC — A smitten Rielle Hunter kept a poster-sized photo of John Edwards as a little boy in her Chapel Hill home — and he autographed it, “Love, John,” a witness testified yesterday. Edwards’ baby-mama also had a framed photograph of her and the disgraced former senator and presidential candidate, which...  

John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter knocked on the hotel door of a campaign aide in early 2007 and told the stunned campaign worker that "she and John Edwards were very much in love." Two days later Edwards took the aide aside and said that Hunter was "crazy" and denied that he was having an affair with her.  

Records introduced Tuesday at John Edwards' corruption trial show his campaign finance chairman paid the candidate's mistress a $9,000 monthly cash allowance, on top of other living and travel expenses.Wealthy Texas lawyer Fred Baron is one of two political supporters who combined gave nearly $1 million to help hide Edwards' pregnant mistress Rielle Hunter as the politician sought the White House in 2008. Evidence introduced at the trial...  

John Edwards quietly asked mistress Rielle Hunter about her growing baby bump — and in the next breath insisted to campaign staffers that the two were not having an affair, a political aide testified yesterday. “I heard him ask Rielle if she was showing yet,” former campaign “body man” John Davis...  

This heel was that close to being President … John Edwards trying to out Clinton, Bill Clinton. John Edwards, facing as much as 30 years in prison and fined as much as $1.5 million, uses the court room as a pick up joint. The term “smarmy” comes to mind. Alternate worlds: What is wrong with [...]  

The finale in the prosecution of John Edwards today may feature Leo Hindery, a political backer who witnessed Edwards' desperate attempt to salvage a top level job from Barack Obama even after Edwards' mistress gave birth to his love child.  

Jurors heard about 17 days of testimony, a lot of focusing on the details of the lurid sex scandal between the Democratic candidate, his mistress Rielle Hunter and his once-trusted aide Andrew Young, who initially claimed he was the father of ...  

Jurors heard about 17 days of testimony, a lot of focusing on the details of the lurid sex scandal between the Democratic candidate, his mistress Rielle Hunter and his once-trusted aide Andrew Young, who initially claimed he was the father of his boss' baby.  

Not since Bill Clinton challenged the definition of "is" has so much hinged on a very short word. John Edwards appears to basing much of his defense, which begins today in a North Carolina courtroom, on the legal interpretation of the word "the." Edwards has listened to three weeks of testimony meant to prove that he violated federal campaign finance laws by using nearly $1million in donations to hide his mistress Rielle Hunter and her...  

John Edwards will begin presenting his defense Monday. The Court has published the list of witnesses for the day, in no particular order. They include: Scott Thomas (Former FEC Commissioner and proposed expert witness) Lora Haggard: One of his campaign's finance officers from Georgia and Treasurer for the Center for Promise and Opportunity Foundation (to which Bunny Mellon contributed millions before even met Rielle Hunter). Tim...  

John Edwards' former press secretary, Jennifer Palmieri, took the stand to testify about a group conversation in October of 2007, where Elizabeth Edwards was upset to find out her husband's mistress Rielle Hunter was still in the picture. Elizabeth Edwards discovered that Fred Baron, Edwards' former campaign finance manager and his wife, were paying to take care of Hunter.  

Jennifer Palmieri is expected to testify at Edwards' corruption trial Wednesday that she was in an Iowa hotel room in October 2007 when Elizabeth Edwards confronted campaign finance chairman Fred Baron and his wife about the couple's financial help to Rielle Hunter.  

Image of Rielle Whether or not Hunter testifies, others have brought her into the courtroom with descriptive portrayals of the woman who grew up in Florida as Lisa Jo Druck. Not only does she have a boisterous, bold New-Agey personality ...  

In light of the subsequent utter perversion of the campaign finance system -- the gobs of SuperPAC money now impacting many races -- I find it very difficult to be particularly indignant about the legal allegation, which now seems almost quaint.  

Moylan had been with Edwards since the day after the Democratic candidate publicly acknowledged his affair with Rielle Hunter during an Aug. 8, 2008, ABC "Nightline" interview with newscaster Bob Woodruff. Elizabeth Edwards had asked Moylan to ...  

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Rielle Hunter's life had a lurid, supermarket-tabloid quality to it — full of deception, betrayal, reckless behavior and broken dreams — well before she became a party to one of the biggest lies in recent American political history.  

Edwards is accused of orchestrating a scheme to take about $1 million from two wealthy campaign donors to hide his pregnant mistress Rielle Hunter while he ran for the White House in 2008. In the 2004 campaign, when he ran for vice president with Sen.  

Prosecutors spent nearly three weeks trying to convince a jury that Edwards masterminded a conspiracy to use nearly $1 million secretly provided by two wealthy donors to help hide his pregnant mistress, Rielle Hunter.  

Prosecutors spent nearly three weeks trying to convince a jury that Edwards masterminded a conspiracy to use nearly $1 million secretly provided by two wealthy donors to help hide his pregnant mistress, Rielle Hunter.  

Closing arguments were delivered in the John Edwards corruption trial on Thursday in Greensboro, N.C., with prosecutors telling the jury that Edwards knew exactly what he was doing in 2008 when in using nearly $1 million in campaign funds to cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter, and lawyers for the former presidential candidate arguing that while he may have been a " bad husband," he did not violate any federal laws in doing so...  

She said they were “in love.” He said she was “crazy.” A jury heard Thursday about John Edwards’ desperate attempts to conceal his affair with Rielle Hunter — who blabbed about it to a campaign staffer.  

GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - Jurors began their sixth day of deliberations on Friday in former Senator John Edwards' federal campaign finance case, with hundreds of trial exhibits at their disposal to help decide the ex-presidential candidate's fate. The 12 members of the panel in recent days requested closer inspection of evidence that details the money spent by two Edwards supporters to conceal his affair with then-mistress Rielle...  

John Edwards and his mistress Rielle Hunter might both be called to the witness stand Wednesday, delivering explosive back-to-back testimony and concluding nearly a month of court proceedings that ...  

John Edwards' defense team has rested its case without calling the former presidential candidate or his mistress Rielle Hunter to the stand. The judge has also told jurors that no more witnesses will be called in the campaign corruption trial. Closing ...  

The jury is expected to get the case by Friday. Lawyers for the North Carolina Democrat rested their case Wednesday, without calling Edwards or former mistress Rielle Hunter to testify. Edwards is accused of misusing contributions from donors ...  

GREENSBORO — After nearly three weeks of testimony, jurors finally heard John Edwards speak on Thursday.Albeit, it was in a taped interview with ABC reporter Bob Woodruff.In it, Edwards admitted to having an affair with videographer Rielle Hunter.He also assured Woodruff that he was not the father of Hunter’s daughter, Quinn, and said he was imperfect.read more  

When John Edwards first learned Rielle Hunter was pregnant with his child, he reacted with disbelief and harsh words, according to former aide Andrew Young. "She's a 'crazy slut,'" Young says Edwards told him. Testifying Tuesday in the second day of Edwards' criminal trial, Young recalled delivering the news to the politician in mid-2007 that Rielle was preggers. Describing their phone call, Young testified, "He was very concerned. He was...  

rested its conspiracy case against John Edwards in Greensboro, N.C., on Thursday without calling Rielle Hunter, his former mistress, ending speculation that she would be asked to testify against the ...  

Former presidential nominee John Edwards's defense team rested its case Wednesday without calling Edwards or his mistress Rielle Hunter to testify. He is charged with six counts of illegal campaign contributions, conspiracy and falsifying ...  

Rielle Hunter's life had a lurid, supermarket-tabloid quality to it — full of deception, betrayal, reckless behavior and broken dreams — well before she became a party to one of the biggest lies in recent American political history.  

USA TODAYRielle Hunter: John Edwards' mistress yet to appear at trial, but her ...ABC NewsRielle Hunter, John Edwards' former mistress and mother of his now 4-year-old child, has yet to appear at the candidate's criminal conspiracy trial in Greensboro, NC, which is nearing the end of its second week. But her presence has nonetheless been ...Aide recalls conversation with Edwards mistressCNNTestimony: As affair progressed, Elizabeth Edwards...  

The end of the John Edwards trial came into view Tuesday as his defense team told the judge that only three potential defense witnesses remain - the defendant; his daughter, Cate; and his former mistress, Rielle Hunter. Defense attorney Abbe ...  

The former presidential candidate was the chief architect of a criminal scheme to illegally use ... Edwards, a famed trial lawyer himself, never took the stand in his own defense. Nor did jurors hear directly from Rielle Hunter. Edwards' defense lasted ...  

The way we live now: On Friday, ABC News reported that former Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards has been flirting with a female alternate juror at his trial for allegedly making illegal payments from his campaign fund to cover up an affair. Per the story: Since the alternates were identified last Thursday, it has been impossible to ignore the dynamic between Edwards and one of the female alternates, an attractive young woman...  

Right before the Government rested today, it was allowed to play the entire 2008 interview John Edwards gave to 20/20, in which he acknowledged having a brief affair with Rielle Hunter that had ended a long time ago, and in which he said Elizabeth knew all about it. Also in the interview, Edwards said: "I have never asked anybody to pay a dime of money. Never been told that any money has been paid. Nothing has been done at my request...  

Rielle Hunter's life had a lurid, supermarket-tabloid quality to it — full of deception, betrayal, reckless behavior and broken dreams — well before she became a party to one of the biggest lies in recent American political history.  

GREENSBORO, N.C. — During his testimony at the John Edwards trial, Edwards' former aide Andrew Young said he and his wife were put in the position of hiding Edwards' extramarital affair with Rielle Hunter and her pregnancy. But as other former ...  

In attempting to hide his affair with a campaign videographer, disgraced ex-Sen, John Edwards told an aide that his mistress Rielle Hunter was "crazy." Just two days earlier, in 2007, Hunter had confessed to the surprised aide that the two were "were very ...  

That means Edwards, Rielle Hunter, the campaign videographer with whom he had an affair, and Edwards' daughter, Cate, will not take the stand to testify. Closing arguments could begin as early as tomorrow. Edwards is accused of breaking campaign-finance ...  

Bounds/AP) Rielle Hunter, John Edwards' former mistress and mother ... They later attended a Dave Matthews Band concert and flew to Washington, D.C., together, Nelson testified. • Josh Brumberger, yet another former campaign aide, testified that he ...  

"John Edwards verdict could become part of Citizens United backlash; A diverse panel of North Carolinians is currently considering whether John Edwards committed campaign fraud in 2008, but the verdict could also reverberate nationally if it is at odds with...  

The defense in the John Edwards corruption trial rested on Wednesday morning in Greensboro, N.C., without calling the former presidential candidate, his daughter Cate or Rielle Hunter, his former mistress, mother of his four-year-old love child ...  

John Edwards denied his affair with Rielle Hunter to the American public but would not do so in a sworn affidavit, while his mistress wanted to claim she was abducted by aliens, according to the latest dispatches from his trial. Mark Kornblau, who worked ...  

Former aide to John Edwards, John Davis took the stand this morning in the trial over whether the Edwards campaign illegally used over $1 million in campaign contributions to hide the existence of Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter. Davis recalled that he ...  

GREENSBORO, North Carolina (CNN) -- John Edwards knew that a wealthy benefactor was giving money to help cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter, a former speechwriter testified Tuesday during the corruption trial of the former presidential cand YouTube Video:  No YouTube read more  

Former presidential candidate John Edwards consulted Hollywood pals including actor Sean Penn and "Revenge" star Madeleine Stowe as he sought advice about the Rielle Hunter scandal, reports People.com.Edwards, who served as a senator from North Carolina before running for president in 2004 and 2008, made many revisions to a public statement about his illegitimate child with Hunter, sending them to his Hollywood supporters, according to...  

Updated at 6:50 p.m. ET: A donor to former Sen. John Edwards' 2008 presidential campaign testified Tuesday that he steered Barack Obama's campaign away from considering Edwards as a potential running mate or Cabinet member because of Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter.  

The Government continues to put on witnesses describing the tawdry affair of John Edwards and Rielle Hunter. Yesterday witnesses focused on the effect of the affair on Elizabeth Edwards. While an aide also testified to Edwards' first meeting with Bunny Mellon in 2005, Edwards isn't charged with receiving illegal contributions until 2007. What was the purpose of detailing Elizabeth Edwards' humiliating moments in a parking lot, at an...  

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The jury in John Edwards' campaign corruption trial has begun a sixth day of deliberations Friday. The jury looked at about 20 exhibits during its discussions Thursday. Most of them were financial records involving money...  

Attorney Debbie Hines, a former prosecutor and founder of Legal ... wealthy campaign donors to hide his pregnant mistress Rielle Hunter while he ran for the White House in 2008. In the 2004 campaign, when he ran for vice president with Sen.  

It's day six in the deliberations for the John Edwards campaign finance trial and Thursday we got a clue that the jury might only be at the halfway point in reaching a verdict. They requested 20 different exhibits relating to the money Edwards got from Fred Baron.  

GREENSBORO, N.C. — John Edwards' defense team rested Wednesday without ... Rielle Hunter, as he sought the White House in 2008. Many people watching the case believed Edwards would testify so the jury could hear directly from the former ...  

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Records introduced Tuesday at John Edwards’ corruption trial show his campaign ... pregnant mistress Rielle Hunter as the politician sought the White House in 2008. Evidence introduced at the trial showed Baron, who ...  

Click image to see more photos. (AP/File) John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter was given $9,000 a month in cash for living expenses by his campaign finance chairman in 2008, according to records introduced at the former candidate's corruption trial on Tuesday. Fred Baron, the former finance chairman of Edwards' 2008 campaign, began making regular deposits [...]  

After The National Enquirer broke the story of presidential candidate John Edward's affair with Rielle Hunter ... "There was a lot of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, and astrology," he said. "I told Mr. Edwards that Ms. Hunter looked a little ...  

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The defense in the trial of former Senator and presidential candidate John Edwards rested its case Wednesday without calling either the defendant or his mistress to the stand, Reuters reports. Edwards faces charges he used campaign money to squirrel away Rielle Hunter, his lover and the mother of his child, from public exposure during his 2008 run. He has maintained he hid her to conceal the affair from his dying...  

John Edwards Trial: Focus Shifts to Rielle Hunter Watch Video John Edwards Trial: Was Rielle Hunter 'Madly in Love'? Watch Video Button asked Edwards if he should also apologize to Andrew Young, the aide who lied on Edwards' behalf and falsely ...  

John Edwards and his mistress Rielle Hunter might both be called to the witness stand Wednesday, delivering explosive back-to-back testimony and concluding nearly a month of court proceedings that have laid bare the steamy details of their ...  

As the John Edwards trial unfolds, we learn how Andrew Young suggested to Rachel ′Bunny′ Mellon to use her Virginia farm to help provide funds to the candidate. John Edwards knew all along, according to trial witnesses, that the ′Bunny Money′ was to help keep the North Carolina candidate′s girlfriend, Rielle Hunter, quiet. [...]  

Lowell has teased that Edwards and his onetime mistress Rielle Hunter might be called as witnesses on Wednesday, The Washington Post's Manuel Roig-Franzia reports. Cate Edwards, his 30-year-old daughter, might also be called to the stand to "humanize" her ...  

Texas trial lawyer Fred Baron gave $74,000 to John Edwards mistress Rielle Hunter during the latter half of 2008, according to financial records shown in court today. Edwards, 58, is on trial for campaign finance violations related to nearly $1 ...  

GREENSBORO — A list of witnesses federal prosecutors may call to testify during John Edwards' trial includes Rielle Hunter, ex-mistress of former presidential candidate John Edwards, according to paperwork filed in court Thursday.read more  

Wealthy Texas lawyer Fred Baron is one of two political supporters who combined gave about $1 million to help hide Edwards' pregnant mistress Rielle Hunter as the politician sought the White House in 2008. Evidence introduced at the trial showed ...  

Lisa Blue, about the couple's financial support for Rielle Hunter. Palmieri, now the deputy communications director for President Barack Obama, broke down in tears while discussing her friendship with Elizabeth Edwards, who was battling fatal cancer.  

a.stbar.chicklet img {border:0;height:16px;width:16px;margin-right:3px;vertical-align:middle;} a.stbar.chicklet {height:16px;line-height:16px;} ShareThis For John Edwards' children, a trial of their own ANNE BLYTHE Raleigh News and Observer 05-24-12 John Edwards has been described many ways throughout his trial, as a philandering husband, an opportunistic political climber and an egotistical...  

John Edwards' defense opened Monday morning, seeking to prove that almost $1 million provided by wealthy donors to help cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter did not amount to campaign contributions subject to federal regulation. Edwards, a ...  

I think it would have been very bad for the campaign." Hunter eventually issued a denial without mentioning aliens. Bizarre. Originally, Edwards issued a statement saying that an aide, Andrew Young, was the father. There were plenty of other weird details ...  

GREENSBORO - Rielle Hunter's life had a lurid, supermarket-tabloid quality to it - full of deception, betrayal, reckless behavior and broken dreams - well before she became a party to one of the biggest lies in recent American political history.  

Edwards were very much in love and that he was concerned I had seen her,” Davis ... Hunter was four months pregnant by then, and a yearlong effort ensued to keep the media away from her and cover up the affair using what prosecutors say ...  

Cate Edwards, the daughter of John Edwards, had to leave his trial on federal campaign violation charges yesterday after some upsetting revelations. She walked out of the courtroom, crying, as a witness started to describe an argument between her parents after a tabloid reported her dad's affair. The former U.S. Senator faces charges of illegally using campaign contributions to cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter while running for...  

The Government's next witness after Cheri Young is expected to be former Edwards aide Josh Brumburger. Brumburger was with Edwards at the Regency when Rielle Hunter came over to introduce herself. Brumberger was wary of Rielle and expressed his concerns to Edwards. Ultimately, Edwards fired Brumberger. You can read the supposed backstory in this lengthy excerpt from Game Change by Josh Heilemann and Mark Helperin. From the Government's...  

Must-read Mark Steyn: “Edwards now faces 30 years in jail, for the crime of getting a couple of pals to pay for his baby’s diapers. For purposes of comparison, Anders Breivik murdered 77 people and is looking at 21 years in jail, the maximum sentence permitted under Norwegian law.” Contra: Hans von Spakovsky argues that [...]More on the John Edwards prosecution is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system  

The government rested its case against John Edwards on Thursday by showing a videotape of the one-time Democratic presidential hopeful telling a now infamous lie – that he was not the father of Rielle Hunter’s child.Judge Catherine Eagles is expected to hear defense motions Friday to dismiss the case. The jury will not be in the courtroom Friday as she listens to attorneys.Prosecutors wrapped up Thursday with some of the driest testimony of...  

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The wife of the star prosecution witness broke down on the stand Monday morning while recounting how former Sen. John Edwards wanted her husband to falsely claim paternity for the child of his mistress, Rielle Hunter. Cheri Young testified that when her  …  

Rielle Hunter - the mistress of disgraced Presidential hopeful John Edwards - has reportedly cooled her relationship ... The couple - whose affair led to the birth of their child Frances Quinn - showed no affection towards each other and weren't holding ...  

During an emotional round of testimony this morning Cheri Young spoke about going into hiding with John Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter. Young, 38, is the wife of former campaign staffer Andrew Young, who in 2007 claimed paternity of Edwards' child with Hunter. read more  

John Edwards? trial is over for the week. The jury has heard from Andrew Young and his wife, Cheri. They were there, and they were put to work by Edwards to cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter while Edwards was married to his late, and famous, wife?? Elizabeth. In another post, I?ve detailed Hunter?s ...  

A jury is likely to weigh what Edwards did in the Rielle Hunter affair much more harshly than the Federal Election Commission.A jury is likely to weigh what Edwards did in the Rielle Hunter affair much more harshly than the Federal Election Commission.  

On Monday, Edwards' campaign chief financial officer took the stand to testify that Federal Election Commission auditors decided that the hush money he received from wealthy donors to cover up a torrid affair with Rielle Hunter did not need to ...  

A day after breaking down and falling ill on the witness stand, Cheri Young, the wife of John Edwards' former aide Andrew Young, was grilled by the defense at Edwards' federal corruption trial in North Carolina, admitting that her husband drank "a lot" and took Ambien while trying to hide Rielle Hunter, the former presidential candidate's mistress. In her third day of testimony, Young said that the stress of keeping Edwards...  

Cheri Young gave an emotional and sometimes angry account of what she went through to help cover up the affair between presidential candidate John Edwards and his mistress Rielle Hunter. During the prosecution's questioning, Young gave a detailed account of how they used the money and the lies they had to keep up with.  

As John Edwards' defense team readies its case, "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Erin Moriarty discusses the likelihood Edwards or ex-mistress Rielle Hunter will testify.  

Ex-presidential candidate John Edwards is currently on trial for allegedly using money from his campaign to hide an affair with Rielle Hunter from both the public and his wife who was battling cancer at the time. Edwards faces six criminal ...  

Wednesday marks the fourth day of deliberations for the jury in the John Edwards campaign finance trial. It began the day at 9:30 a.m. with two exhibits requested late Tuesday afternoon and is still working toward reaching a verdict for the six charges brought against the former presidential candidate.  

Andrew Young, former aide to John Edwards, alleged on Tuesday that the former presidential candidate called Rielle Hunter a "crazy slut" when he learned she was potentially pregnant with his love child. According to Young, Edwards said at the ...  

The judge in the John Edwards trial read today's list of witnesses in court this morning. There are six, not including speechwriter Wendy Button who resumed testifying this morning. Rielle Hunter was not on the list. The Government has said it expects to wrap up its case tomorrow. The Government could, of course, call Hunter tomorrow -- even close its case with her . There would be a certain symmetry to that -- opening with Andrew...  

The jury has heard from Andrew Young and his wife, Cheri. They were there, and they were put to work by Edwards to cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter while Edwards was married to his late, and famous, wife  Elizabeth. In another post ...  

She said the candidate had called her to a Davenport, Iowa, hotel room in October 2007 where Elizabeth Edwards confronted campaign finance chairman Fred Baron and his wife about the couple's financial help to Rielle Hunter. In addition to being ...  

The Rielle Hunter affair that is at the heart of John Edwards' campaign fund fraud trial may be cooling off, according to the New York Post. A server at Charlotte, N.C. restaurant Rooster's Wood Fire Kitchen says that during a recent visit, the ...  

Word out of federal court in Greensboro on Wednesday morning was likely sad news for those who miss the daytime soap operas that once dominated TV in the afternoons. There will be no testimony from either John Edwards or his former mistress Rielle...  

The John Edwards criminal conspiracy trial continues Friday in Greensboro, N.C., with Cheri Young, the wife of former Edwards aide Andrew Young, expected to take the witness stand. Young, the prosecution's star witness, dominated the first week of testimony, describing in elaborate detail how he was instructed to hide Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter, a campaign videographer, during the 2008 presidential campaign. Below are...  

Today, during the opening statements of his trial, two-time presidential candidate John Edwards was accused of illegally using campaign funds in 2008 to cover up an affair he had with Rielle Hunter, a videographer for his campaign.  

His attorneys also will not call Edwards' adult daughter to the stand. He's accused of using campaign funds to try to hide his affair and a daughter Rielle Hunter delivered.  

RIELLE Hunter's life had a lurid, supermarket-tabloid quality to it - full of deception, betrayal, reckless behaviour and broken dreams - well before she became a party to one of the biggest lies in recent American political history. Her father had her ...  

Now here's a role-reversal: The editors of National Review, never fans of John Edwards, examine the charges against him and conclude that "it is our obligation to come unenthusiastically to his defense." On the other hand, Walter Shapiro, who once was an admirer of Edwards, thinks that the prosecution's case is stronger than it looks at first blush. Here's NR: Edwards’s mistress, Rielle Hunter, was paid off by his supporters. The financial...  

The sordid tale of Senator John Edwards, his mistress Rielle Hunter, and Andrew Young, the campaign employee who went to great lengths to cover the whole affair up, is more complicated than a “Gossip Girl” plot. And that is saying something.  

Rielle Hunter, also known as Lisa Jo Druck, Lisa Hunter, Lisa Jo Hunter, and Rielle Jaya James Druck, was born on March 20, 1964, in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Her parents, James Druck and Gwen Druck, owned Eagle Nest Farm in Ocala, FL. It was there ...  

The 58-year-old Edwards has pleaded not guilty to six counts related to campaign finance violations involving nearly $1 million in secret payments provided by two wealthy donors as he sought the White House in 2008. Young said Rielle Hunter told ...  

The jury deciding former presidential candidate John Edwards' fate ended its sixth day of deliberations Friday without a verdict. The 12-member jury will resume talks Tuesday, following a three-day Memorial Day weekend break. Edwards, the Democrats' 2004 ...  

But today, Edwards’ legal team cross examined the man who allegedly claimed to have the tape. Two years ago, Hunter had sued Andrew Young over the tape. Then in fall 2010, Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones told Andrew Young to hand him ...  

When John Edwards learned that Rielle Hunter was pregnant with his child, he reacted with disbelief – and a verbal swipe at his mistress, a witness testified Tuesday. "She's a 'crazy slut,' " former aide Andrew Young says Edwards told him.  

Elizabeth Edwards died in December 2010 ... The defense is expected to call two former Federal Election Commission chairmen, Robert Lenhard and Scott E. Thomas, to testify that the gifts were not a violation of campaign finance laws.  

is in court on accusations that he used campaign money to hide his affair with Hunter and their love child. Sources tell the New York Post that the two "didn't seem romantic" when they dined at Rooster’s Wood Fire Kitchen in Charlotte. As many people ...  

In 2000, Lisa Druck re-emerged in Los Angeles as newly single Rielle Hunter, writer and producer of a 20-minute-long comedy called “Billy Bob and Them,” which she also acted in and self-distributed. Mooradian worked on “Billy Bob and Them.”  

JOHN EDWARDS’ defense attorney tried to tear apart an ex-aide’s testimony Thursday — claiming he was lying to make money off the sensational scandal. Andrew Young, who was once Edwards’ most trusted assistant, is the government’s star ...  

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The government rested its case against John Edwards on Thursday by showing a videotape of the one-time Democratic presidential hopeful telling a now infamous lie - that he was not the father of Rielle Hunter’s child.  

GREENSBORO, North Carolina (Reuters) - The sixth day of jury deliberations in former U.S. Senator John Edwards' federal campaign finance trial ended without a verdict on Friday after the judge held a closed-court session about an undisclosed juror matter.  

The latest news on the relationship between Edwards and Hunter comes as ... Edwards' lawyers contend the payments were gifts from friends intent on keeping the candidate's wife from finding out about the mistress, Rielle Hunter, and her baby.  

GREENSBORO, N.C.—The jury considering campaign finance charges against former Sen. John Edwards quit for the long weekend Friday without returning any verdicts, but the judge overseeing the case closed the courtroom to the public in order to discuss a ...  

Jan. 2, 2003:  Sen. John Edwards announces his candidacy for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination.   March 3, 2004:  John Edwards drops out of the race.   Nov. 3, 2004:  Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, is diagnosed with breast cancer.   2006:  Edwards meets videographer Rielle Hunter outside a New York hotel.  A sexual affair ensued.   Dec. 28, 2006:  Edwards announces his candidacy for the 2008 nomination.   July 31, 2007...  

Former U.S. Senator John Edwards is facing campaign finance violation charges connected to nearly $1 million in donations he got from two supporters during his presidential run in 2008. The Democrat — a former trial attorney who ran for vice president in 2004 and for president in 2008 — is accused of using the money to cover up an affair with videographer Rielle Hunter.read more  

After months of motions, pretrial hearings and delays, John Edwards' trial on campaign finance violations charges began Thursday in federal court in Greensboro. Edwards is accused of using nearly $1 million in donations to hide an affair with his former mistress Rielle Hunter.  

Jury selection is scheduled to begin Thursday in John Edwards' criminal trial. The former NC senator and two-time Democratic presidential candidate is accused of campaign finance violations of using nearly $1 million in donations to hide former mistress Rielle Hunter.  

After several days of surprising testimony from John Edwards' main accuser, Andrew Young, next up on the stand could be Edwards' former mistress, Rielle Hunter. "48 Hours Mystery" correspondent Erin Moriarty and CBS News legal analyst Jack Ford take a look back, and ahead at what's next.  

Rielle Hunter is every bit the trainwreck you’d expect: Rielle Hunter’s life had a lurid, supermarket-tabloid quality to it — full of deception, betrayal, reckless behavior and broken dreams — well before she became a party to one of the biggest lies in recent American political history. Her father had her beloved show horse killed for insurance money. An ex-boyfriend used her as his muse for the ‘cocaine-addled, sexually voracious’ narrator...  

If John Edwards’ kooky ex-mistress takes the stand at his trial, it will be as a witness for the defense. The prosecution is expected to wrap up its case on Thursday, and Rielle Hunter is not on the list of witnesses for the day.  

Jurors in the corruption trial of former presidential candidate John Edwards concluded their sixth day of deliberations Friday and were dismissed for the long Memorial Day weekend. Judge Catherine C. Eagles said she may need to speak with attorneys Tuesday ...  

GREENSBORO — The jury deciding the fate of John Edwards in North Carolina has asked to see more evidence exhibits. The former presidential candidate faces 30 years in prison after pleading not guilty to six campaign finance corruption charges. The...  

Jury selection begins in a Greensboro, N.C., federal courtroom Thursday in the trial of 2008 Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards. Edwards is charged with six felony and misdemeanor counts related to the money dealings of his failed 2008 campaign. Rielle Hunter, his former mistress, is expected to testify at the trial. A major issue in the approaching trial is whether money given to support Hunter, by the then-candidate's...  

The baby Edwards fathered, Frances Quinn Hunter ... photos of the blue-water resorts and mountain mansion were shown on video monitors around the courtroom. Baron also sent Young overnight packages stuffed with cash. On included a handwritten ...  

As John Edwards — who stands accused of diverting nearly $1 million in campaign funds to cover up his affair — presents his defense this week, his lawyer says there is a possibility that Rielle Hunter, his former lover and mother of his ...  

We are not sure what Rielle Hunter being a total asshole has to do with John Edwards’ campaign finance violations, but prosecutors are not skimping on the details. For instance! [Cheri] Young described, too, how she and Andrew wrote several checks ...  

Jury selection wrapped up quickly Monday morning in John Edwards' campaign finance trial. The former North Carolina senator and two-time presidential candidate is accused of misusing campaign money to hide his former mistress, Rielle Hunter.  

Embarrassing details of shamed senator John Edwards’ personal life came pouring out in court on Tuesday when his former aide took the stand to testify on behalf of the prosecution in his campaign finance violation trial. As RadarOnline.com ...  

John Edwards, a man who once projected political promise that many thought would lead to the Oval Office, goes on trial Monday. Edwards as indicted last June on six felony counts, including conspiracy, four counts of receiving illegal campaign contributions and one count of false statements for allegedly soliciting and secretly spending over $925,000 to hide his mistress, Rielle Hunter, at the height of his 2008 White House...  

According to The New York Post, the romance between Edwards, 58, and his mistress has nearly halted to a stop, as the former politician stands trial for the misuse of $1 million in campaign funds allegedly used to cover up an affair he had with ...  

Cheri Young, wife of John Edwards' former aide Andrew Young, defended a video she shot in the home of Edwards' mistress Rielle Hunter, saying she wanted "proof" that she "really was taking care of Rielle Hunter." "I wanted proof that I really ...  

Jurors began their sixth day of deliberations Friday in the corruption trial of John Edwards, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. The jury started its deliberations one week ago.  

John Edwards was also there. Palmieri heard convo btwn Edwards, Fred baron & Lisa blue (Fred's wife) on why Baron & Blue were supporting Rielle Hunter. #edwardstrial— Sheeka Strickland (@Sheeka_S) May 09, 2012 According to Palmieri ...  

She said the candidate had called her to the Davenport, Iowa, hotel room where his wife was arguing with campaign finance chairman Fred Baron and his wife about the couple's financial help to Rielle Hunter. Palmieri had become close friends with Elizabeth ...  

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WUSA) - John Edwards' defense wrapped up its case on Wednesday without calling his former mistress, his daughter, Cate, and Edwards himself. Court watchers had expected the former U.S. senator and trial lawyer to testify in his own defense.  

When the National Enquirer broke a story that presidential candidate John Edwards was having an affair, Edwards' campaign was worried by mistress Rielle Hunter's initial reluctance to issue a denial. Instead, she wanted to put out a flip statement that she was "abducted by aliens." The subtler part of the testimony was to show that Edwards' campaign was involved in the affair.  

When the National Enquirer broke a story that presidential candidate John Edwards was having an affair, Edwards' campaign was worried by mistress Rielle Hunter's initial reluctance to issue a denial. Instead, she wanted to put out a flip statement that she was "abducted by aliens." The Enquirer's story triggered an emotional meltdown by Edwards' wife Elizabeth, who was coping with terminal cancer at the time of the revelation in October 2007...  

Greensboro, North Carolina (CNN)-- John Edwards knew that a wealthy benefactor was giving money to help cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter, a former speechwriter testified Tuesday during the corruption trial of the former presidential candidate.  

The jury in John Edwards' campaign corruption trial is set for a sixth day of deliberations Friday. The jury looked at about 20 exhibits during its discussions Thursday. Most of them were financial records involving money given by a wealthy Texas lawyer.  

This observation confirms that Edwards and his mistress made the sex tape around September or October 2007, in the midst of Edwards’ presidential campaign.   See  Best Articles with Background Information on John Edwards - Rielle Hunter ...  

GREENSBORO, N.C.—Former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) knew during a critical phase of his 2008 presidential campaign that two of his wealthy supporters were paying for travel by and gifts to his mistress, Rielle Hunter, a former top adviser to ...  

The jury in John Edwards' campaign corruption trial is set for a sixth day of deliberations Friday. Prosecutors say Edwards used nearly $1 million from donors in a plan to hide his pregnant mistress as he sought the White House in 2008. Edwards is charged ...