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Breck Boy Hanging Law Shingle Again
[DEALBOOK.NYTIMES] Before he served as a United States senator, before he made a run at the presidency and before his political career collapsed amid a sex scandal and fraud trial,  John Edwards...Former senator from North Carolina, former vice presidential candidate, former Democratic presidential contender. Edwards was noted for his Two Americasstump speech and for his pretty hair. People started to notice which of the two Americas he belonged to when he got a $400 haircut in his private plane. While his wife, Elizabeth, was dying of cancer Breck Boy was porking a hussy named Riehl Hunter, with whom he fathered a child, then paid one of his aides to claim that the baby was his. He is currently trying to explain to the friendliest judge he can find how he happened to use campaign funds to do all that, rather than dipping into his own considerable fortune... was a trial lawyer. Now, Mr. Edwards is returning to his roots and opening a new law practice. The plaintiffs' firm, Edwards Kirby, reunites him with his former partner, David F. Kirby, and includes on its payroll his eldest daughter, Cate Edwards. "The reason we formed this firm is because we all believe in the same thing -- in standing up for the disenfranchised and those who need an equal chance," Mr. Edwards said in a telephone interview from his offices in Raleigh, N.C. "That's why we exist." The path back for the 60-year-old Mr. Edwards began in earnest in May 2012, when a federal jury in Greensboro declared a mistrial on five corruption charges and acquitted him on one more. Prosecutors charged Mr. Edwards with misusing nearly $1 million in campaign donations to hide a pregnant mistress as he reached for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008. Mr. Edwards walked out of court with his law license intact and vindicated legally, but the blow to his family, reputation and ego was devastating. For nearly six weeks, a jury -- and by extension, a nation -- heard about Mr. Edwards's most intimate sexual secrets and the string of public lies he told regarding his affair with his campaign videographer and her subsequent pregnancy. The trial laid bare Mr. Edwards's efforts to conceal his mistress from his wife, Elizabeth Edwards, an accomplished lawyer who was engaged in a public fight with breast cancer. Since the trial, Mr. Edwards has done much to repair his family and personal life. He has remained based in his sprawling home in the countryside not far from Chapel Hill, tending to Emma Claire, 15, and Jack, 13, two of the four children he had with Mrs. Edwards. His son, Wade, was killed in a car wreck when he was 16. Mrs. Edwards had separated from Mr. Edwards in 2010, but never legally divorced him, and died in December of that year. Posted by: Fred 2013-11-20 |
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