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June 1st, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The 2004 Democratic vice-presidential nominee pledged to dedicate his life “to
being the best dad that I can be” to his four children, and to working to
help disadvantaged children in the poorest parts of America.
The verdict brought a chaotic end to nine days of deliberations that followed
a confusing month-long trial. Mr Edwards, who denied all charges, had been
facing up to 30 years in prison and a fine of $1.5 million (£974,400).
He was found not guilty of masterminding the use of a $725,000 gift from
Rachel “Bunny” Mellon, a 101-year-old banking heiress, to hide his affair
with Ms Hunter from the media and his family in 2008 by flying her across
the country and putting her up in luxurious hotels.
His lawyers claimed that he did not court the donation from Mrs Mellon, an
avid supporter who wrote him notes comparing him to Robert F. Kennedy, and
that it was unrelated to his political campaign.
Andrew Young, an aide who led Mr Edwards’s cover-up of Ms Hunter to the point
of claiming that he was her lover and Quinn’s father, testified during the
trial that his former boss had directed Ms Mellon’s funding of the cover-up
scheme and knew it breached a $2,300 limit on campaign donations.
Mr Edwards faced a separate charge of misusing another donation from Ms Mellon
in 2007, in addition to two counts of misusing money from Fred Baron, a
wealthy Texas lawyer, who died in 2008.
He was also accused of a carrying out a conspiracy with Mr Young and of
illegally filing campaign finance reports that distorted the funding
arrangements. However, jurors could not agree on his guilt.
They were ordered to resume deliberating after first informing Judge Eagles
yesterday afternoon that they could not agree over the five additional
counts. However, they returned again soon after to insist that the deadlock
could not be broken.
Observers said the courtroom was silent as Judge Eagles took the jury through
each count, but that Mr Edwards broke into a relieved smile as it became
clear that he was not going to be convicted. His mother, Bobbie, said: “We
prayed for this and God answered our prayers.”
Mr Edwards thanked the jurors for their “hard work and diligence” during his
speech. “Thank goodness we live in a country that has the kind of system we
have,” he said.
The jurors’ drawn-out deliberations over complex electoral finance law were
marked at several points by unspecified “jury issues” that were addressed
behind closed doors. One of the four alternate, or stand-in, jurors, was
reported at one stage to be visibly flirting with Mr Edwards.
Their decisions vindicated an early decision by Mr Edwards, once a celebrated
trial lawyer, to gamble by rejecting the offer of a plea deal with
prosecutors, but will do little to rehabilitate a name once widely tipped
for greatness.
Mr Edwards entered politics at 45 and was elected senator for his home state
of North Carolina in 1998. He ran for the party’s presidential nomination in
2004 but was defeated by Senator John Kerry, who selected him as his running
mate.
After their defeat by George W. Bush, Mr Edwards maintained his political
operation, which he turned into a second campaign for president in 2008,
which was
Despite finishing second in the Iowa caucuses, he was edged out of the race by
the struggle between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Even as evidence of
his affair mounted, many Democrats believed that Mr Obama would ask him to
serve as Attorney General, or even Vice President.
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