John Edwards' Use of Campaign Funds to Support his Mistress: A Claim for Misappropriation?
It has come to no surprise to learn that former Democratic presidential candidate, John Edwards, and his wife, Elizabeth Edwards, have legally separated. While reports do not state when the couple separated, sources claim the couple separated a while ago. Should these two proceed to dissolving their marriage, one issue to be discussed most certainly will be the campaign funds John Edwards used on his mistress, Rielle Hunter.
A federal probe has been launched to look into how John Edwards spent his campaign funds on his alleged "employee", Rielle Hunter. Hunter, the admitted mistress of John Edwards, 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.
