...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...
for allegedly using campaign funds to cover up an extramarital affair during his 2008 run for the White House.
In court filings and during hearings Wednesday and Thursday, Edwards' attorneys argued that the prosecution of the once prominent Democrat is politically motivated and characterized the charges against him as unconstitutionally vague because the laws in question failed to provide "fair warning" that his alleged conduct was illegal.
Democrats are suddenly interested in mens rea? Though to be fair, Breck Boy would fail that test as well...
"Maybe the FEC [Federal Election Commission] will issue a rule that no candidate can accept a third party payment if it goes to a mistress in an extra-marital affair," Edwards' lead defense attorney Abbe Lowell said before US District Court Judge Catherine Eagles Wednesday. "Maybe they will do that in the future, but in 2008, it didn't exist."
Eagles announced she was denying Edwards' motion to dismiss the charges in court Thursday.
Edwards is charged with one count of conspiracy, four counts of receiving illegal campaign contributions, and one count of making false statements to federal authorities in covering up his alleged crimes. Edwards has pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
to all charges. He faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted.