Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is joining an investigation into violations in Rep. Michele Bachmann’s presidential campaign fund, MinnPost reports. Authorities are focusing on alleged campaign finance violations from Bachmann’s failed bid for presidency last year. State and federal ethics committees have been reviewing whether the presidential campaign fund, MichelePAC, was used to pay an…
Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com In like a lion, out like a lamb for former golden boy John Edwards. Even if he beats criminal charges of campaign finance corruption, Edwards will be hard-pressed to ever recover his public image. The L.A. Times reports that former North Carolina Senator and presidential candidate John Edwards goes to trial on…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ex-Senator and two-time presidential candidate John Edwards, whose public image quickly turned to mud after news of his affair surfaced while his wife was dying of cancer, wants the criminal charges against him dismissed. Politico’s Josh Gerstein reports that Edward’s high-powered attorneys Abbe Lowell, Jim Cooney and Wade Smith filed a…
