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I am really ****ed about the John Edwards trial... Are you following the John Edwards trial? Imagine, 50 years ago, even the press would not have touched the event because a man's sex life was considered taboo! Now, they are trying to put a guy in prison for having a girlfriend. Maybe he knew the status of the money being used for his affair, maybe not. But it was money that came from good friends, that, whether they knew it at the time or not makes any difference because at this time they say they don't care. To me, looks like his friends do not see it as theft, so why should anyone else. Of all the crooks in this world, stealing billions every day, they are spending millions to put a has-been-politician away for being sexually active, thinking with his lower head like most of us do at some point. Nothing can be gained by the public. Nothing can be gained by the government. So, who is the loser? The taxpayer loses because some wannabe JE Hoover boy has his head stuck up the ass of some of this guy's enemies and sees a way of advances in the process...politics.

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The problem with letting John Edwards get by with using the money wherever and whenever he wishes is a violation of law and leaves the door open for candidates, businesses, nonprofits, etc. to misuse funds.  It doesn't matter what the giver wants now.  He / she gave the money under the premise of law that it would be used for campaign funds and it was treated as such for tax purposes and for a political race.  Not prosecuting Edwards would be opening the door to corruption.  Now as the girlfriend matter I could care less.  It would be between Edwards, his wife, and the girlfriend.  He is scum for the way he did his wife, but it wasn't illegal.  Misappropriating funds is a crime that has to be prosecuted.

 

Edwards' trial is not just about misspent campaign funds; it's also about illegal campaign funds. Bunny Mellon, with Edwards' approval, attempted to circumvent the law. Now, you may ask if that is so bad since it was Mellon's money.

 

If we turn a blind eye to that, what prevents any super wealthy individual from buying his or her own president--not to mention other political offices? If Bill Gates wanted to take over a city or town, all he would have to do would be to provide a bottomless coffer to certain candidates, and he would own it. The same goes for Walmart, but of course we know that venerable organization would never commit such a crime.

 

So, yes, the law is very much needed and should be enforced.

Morally, Edwards should be hung, burned at the stake, and drawn and quarters -- for starters. 

 

However, the campaign laws he was accused of violating are an example of complicated badly written law.  Laws should be bright line, not complicated.  If the prosecutor must spend a hour explaining the law to the jury, it shouldn't exist.  Seigelmann is another example of such prosecution.  Agreed, federal prosecutors like to count high value scalps on their belts, like Edwards and others.  Don't  blame J. Edgar Hoover, he actually caught bad guys.  And, counseled against confining Japanese-Americans in WWII.

http://www.timesdaily.com/stor...al-on-others-,191193

 

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — John Edwards was acquitted on one count of accepting illegal campaign contributions and a mistrial was declared on five other counts when jurors said Thursday they couldn't decide if he illegally used donor money to hide his pregnant mistress while he ran for president.

The monthlong trial exposed a sordid sex scandal that dashed Edwards' White House aspirations in 2008, and the jury's decision came on a confusing day.

The judge initially called jurors in to read a verdict on all six counts, before learning that they had only agreed to one. About an hour later, the jury sent the note to the judge saying it had exhausted its discussions.

It was not immediately clear whether prosecutors would retry Edwards on the other counts.

Edwards did not react when the verdict and mistrial were announced, but he was happy and smiling earlier when the jury said it had reached a verdict on one count after nine days of deliberations.

The jury found Edwards not guilty one count of illegal campaign contributions involving $375,000 wealthy heiress Rachel "Bunny" Mellon gave in 2008.

The trial recounted the most intimate details of Edwards' affair with Hunter, including reference to a sex tape of the two together that was later destroyed. It also rehashed the elaborate cover-up that involved his most trusted aide, the aide's wife, an elderly heiress and a wealthy Texas donor.

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