Rielle Hunter, John Edwards' former mistress, went inside the federal courthouse in Raleigh Thursday morning. A grand jury is meeting in the courthouse. FBI agents escorted Hunter into a back entrance at the courthouse shortly after 8:30 a.m. She was carrying her young daughter.
Edwards, a former U.S. senator from North Carolina and two-time presidential candidate, is under investigation to see if campaign funds were illegally paid to Hunter. There is also widespread speculation that Edwards fathered her child.
Last month, a long-time Edwards aide who once claimed to be the father of that child showed up at the courthouse when the grand jury was meeting. |