Did John Edwards Misuse Campaign Funds on Rielle Hunter?
A federal probe has been launched to look into how John Edwards spent his campaign funds on a certain employee: Rielle Hunter. Hunter, the admitted mistress of the former Democratic presidential hopeful, was paid more than $100,000 by Edwards’ public action committee for video filmed during the months leading up to his 2008 presidential campaign. Hunter’s firm was also paid an additional $14,086.50 on April 1, 2007 for “furniture” when the PAC only had $7,932.95 in cash on hand. Another suspicious act was from Edwards’ late national finance chairman, Fred Baron, who reportedly paid Hunter to resettle in California. The investigation will make sure Edwards’ campaign funds were not given to the mistress as hush money. Since admitting to the affair amid a string of stories by the National Enquirer, Edwards has shielded himself from the public eye. His terminally ill wife Elizabeth’s new memoir, Resilience, comes out May 12 and talks about the affair.
