Shoshanna Utchenik ticklethewire.com Jury deliberation drags on for an 8th day in ex-presidential hopeful John Edwards’ corruption case. The jury must decide whether $925,000 in gifts, used to cover up Edwards’ extramarital affair with Rielle Hunter, was merely social capital, or illegal campaign contributions… and they must decide whether Edwards understood them as such. The jury…
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 Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A council member in a southern California town may be off the council soon, after pleading guilty on Monday to felony conspiracy charges. The charges stem from City of Commerce Councilman Robert Fierro’s attempt to interfere with an investigation into his campaign’s finances, reports the LA Times. Fierro reimbursed certain campaign…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com FBI Agents spread out across West Virginia on Tuesday night to question employees of the state Treasurer John Perdue about $1,000 campaign contributions made to his unsuccessful Democratic gubernatorial primary campaign last spring, reports the Charleston Gazette. “A number of individuals are being interviewed this evening,” U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin…
