Johnny Reid " John " Edwards (born June 10, 1953) is an American lawyer and former politician who serves as US Senator from North Carolina. He was a Democratic candidate for Vice President in 2004, and was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008.
Edwards defeated Republican Lauch Faircloth in the 1998 North Carolina Senate election. Toward the end of his six-year term, he sought a Democratic nomination in the 2004 presidential election. He eventually became the 2004 Democratic candidate for vice president, presidential candidate Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts.
After the disappearance of Kerry became President George W. Bush, Edwards began working full-time at the US First Committee, the political action committee he founded in 2001, and was appointed director of the Center for Poverty, Employment and Opportunities at the University of the North. Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law. He is also a consultant for Fortress Investment Group LLC.
The federal Grand Jury in North Carolina charged Edwards in 2011 of six alleged crimes violating federal campaign donations laws to cover up the unmarried relationships he admitted, following the 2008 campaign. Edwards was found innocent in one count, and the judge announced the cancellation of the trial on five counts remain, because the jury can not reach agreement. The Justice Department dropped the remaining charges and did not try to retry Edwards. Although it did not result in a criminal conviction, the revelation that Edwards had an extramarital affair and the father of a child, while his wife Elizabeth died of cancer, seriously damaged his public image and ended his career in politics.
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Early life and education
Edwards was born June 10, 1953, to Wallace Reid Edwards and Catharine Juanita "Bobbie" Edwards (nÃÆ' Â © e Wade) in Seneca, South Carolina. The family moved several times during Edwards's childhood, eventually settling in Robbins, North Carolina, where his father worked as a textile factory worker, eventually promoted to supervisor; his mother had an antique finishing business on the roadside and then worked as a mail carrier when his father left his job.
As a soccer star in high school, Edwards was the first person in his family to attend college. He attended Clemson University and moved to North Carolina State University. Edwards graduated with high honors for a bachelor's degree in textile technology in 1974, and subsequently obtained a Juris Doctor degree from the Law Faculty of the University of North Carolina (UNC) with honors.
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Legal career
After law school, Edwards worked as a federal judge Franklin Dupree in North Carolina, and in 1978 became an associate at the law firm of Nashville Dearborn & Ewing, doing prime testing work primarily, defends Nashville banks and other corporate clients. Lamar Alexander, a Republican governor and nominee for US Senator from Tennessee, was one of Edwards's co-workers. The Edwards family returned to North Carolina in 1981, settled in the capital Raleigh where he joined the firm Tharrington, Smith & amp; Hargrove.
In 1984, Edwards was assigned to a medical malpractice suit that was deemed unlawful; the company has accepted it only as an aid to a lawyer and state senator who does not want to keep it. Nevertheless, Edwards won a $ 3.7 million verdict on behalf of his client, who has suffered permanent brain and nerve damage after doctors prescribed an overdose of Antabuse's anti-alcoholism drug during an alcohol-reluctant treatment. In another case, Edwards sued the American Red Cross thrice, accused AIDS of transmitting through contaminated blood products, resulting in a secret settlement each time, and defending the North Carolina paper against defamation allegations.
In 1985, Edwards represented a five-year-old child born with cerebral palsy - a child whose mother's doctors did not choose to have a cesarean delivery immediately when the fetal monitor showed him in trouble. Edwards won a $ 6.5 million verdict for his client, but five weeks later, the presiding judge backed the verdict, but overturned the verdict on the grounds that it was "excessive" and that it appeared "has been granted under the influence of passion and prejudice," adding that according to him "The evidence is not enough to support the verdict." He offers the plaintiff $ 3.25 million, half the jury award, but the family appeals the case and receives $ 4.25 million in settlement. Winning this case sets North Carolina's precedent on the responsibility of doctors and hospitals for failing to determine whether the patient understands the risks of a particular procedure.
After this trial, Edwards received national attention as a plaintiff's lawyer. He filed at least twenty similar lawsuits in subsequent years and attained verdicts and settlements of over $ 60 million for his clients. Similar lawsuits occur throughout the country. When asked about a nationwide increase in caesarean delivery, perhaps to avoid a similar medical malpractice lawsuit, Edwards said, "The question is, would you rather have a case where it happens than have a case where you did not intervene and a child is also disabled To live or die in the womb? "
In 1993, Edwards started his own company in Raleigh (now called Kirby & Holt) with a friend, David Kirby. He is known as the top plaintiffs lawyer in North Carolina. The biggest case of his legal career was the 1996 liability lawsuit against Sta-Rite, a manufacturer of damaged sewer cover. The case involved Valerie Lakey, a three-year-old girl who was torn apart by the suction power of a pool drain pump as she sat in an open swimming pool whose protective cover had been removed by other children in the pool after the swimming club failed to put the lid on correct. Although there are 12 previous claims with similar claims, Sta-Rite continues to create and sell cover of channels that have no warning. Sta-Rite protests that additional warnings will not make a difference because pool owners already know the importance of keeping security guaranteed.
In his closing argument, Edwards spoke to the jury for an hour and a half and gave a reference to his son, Wade, who had died shortly before the testimony began. Mark Dayton, editor of North Carolina Lawyers Weekly , would later call it "the most impressive legal performance I have ever seen." The jury awarded a $ 25 million family, the largest personal injury award in North Carolina history. The company sets $ 25 million while the jury is considering additional compensation, rather than the risk of losing an appeal. For their part in the case, Edwards and his legal partner David Kirby attained the American National Attendance Lawyers Association for public service. His family said that they hired Edwards rather than other lawyers because he himself offered to accept a smaller percentage in return for the award unless the award was unexpectedly high, while all the other lawyers they spoke to said they needed a full third fee. The size of the jury award is unprecedented, and Edwards receives a standard one-plus-fee fee typical of a contingency case. The family is so impressed with their intelligence and commitment that they volunteer for their Senate campaign next year.
After Edwards won a major ruling on a trucking company whose workers were involved in a fatal accident, the North Carolina legislature passed a law prohibiting the award unless the company specifically approved the employee's actions.
In December 2003, during his first presidential campaign, Edwards (with John Auchard) published the Four Trials, an autobiographical book focusing on cases of his legal career. According to this book, the success of the Sta-Rite case and the death of his son (Edwards hoped his son would eventually join him in private law practice) encouraged Edwards to leave the legal profession and seek public office.
Edwards, his daughter Cate, and David Kirby started a new law firm, called "Edwards Kirby," in 2013, with offices in Raleigh and in Washington, D.C.
Political career
Policy position
Edwards promotes programs to eradicate poverty in the United States, including arguing in favor of making a million housing vouchers over five years to place the poor in middle-class neighborhoods. Edwards has stated, "If we truly believe that we are all equal, then we must live together as well." He also supports the "College for Everyone" initiative.
Although Edwards originally supported the Iraq War, he later changed his position and in November 2005 wrote an opinion on The Washington Post where he said he expressed regret for opting for Iraq's War Resolution and discussing three solutions for success in conflict. He denounced the "wave of troops" in Iraq, was a supporter of the withdrawal, and urged Congress to withhold funding for the war without a withdrawal schedule.
On social policy, Edwards supports abortion rights and has a universal health care plan that requires all Americans to purchase health insurance, "requires everyone to receive preventive care," and requires employers to provide health care coverage or taxes to finance public health care. He supported the citizenship route for illegal immigrants, opposed to constitutional amendments prohibiting same-sex marriage; and support the lifting of the Marriage Defense Act (DOMA).
Edwards supported efforts to slow global warming and was the first presidential candidate to portray his campaign as carbon neutral.
Senate ownership
Edwards won the US Senate election in 1998 when a Democrat ran for the ruling Republican Senator Lauch Faircloth. Despite being an underdog initially, Edwards beat Faircloth by 51.2% to 47.0% - a margin of about 83,000 votes.
During the trial of President Bill Clinton's 1999 impeachment in the Senate, Edwards was responsible for the deposition of witness Monica Lewinsky and fellow Democrat Vernon Jordan, Jr. During the 2000 presidential campaign, Edwards was on the list of nominees for Al Gore's Democratic Party nomination (along with John Kerry and Joe Lieberman, Gore's final choice).
At his time in the Senate, Edwards sponsored 203 bills. Among them was the 2002 Iraq War Resolution Lieberman (S.J.Res.46), which he supported along with 15 other senators, but did not vote. He voted for a replacement resolution (H.J Res. 114) in the full Senate to authorize the use of military force against Iraq, endorsed by a 77 to 23 vote. On October 10, 2002, he declared that:
Hardly anyone disagrees with these basic facts: that Saddam Hussein was a tyrant and a threat; that he has weapons of mass destruction and that he does everything in his power to obtain nuclear weapons; that he has supported terrorists; that it is a major threat to the region, to vital allies like Israel, and to the United States; and that he thwarts the wishes of the international community and undermines the credibility of the United Nations.
He defended the ballot on October 10, 2004, appearing on Meet the Press, saying "I would choose a resolution knowing what I know today, because that is the right thing to do to give the president the authority to face Saddam Hussein... I think Saddam Hussein is a very serious threat.I stand beside it, and that is why [John Kerry and I] stand behind our voices in the resolution, but he later changed his mind about war and apologized on the voice of the military authorization Edwards also voted in favor of the Patriot Act.
Among other positions, Edwards is generally pro-choice and supports affirmative action and capital punishment. One of his first sponsored bills is the Fragile X Research Breakthrough Act of 1999 . He was also the first to introduce comprehensive anti-spyware legislation with Spyware Control and Privacy Protection Act . He advocates to return the Bush administration tax cuts and end the mandatory minimum penalty for nonviolent offenders. Edwards generally supports the expansion of legal immigration into the United States while working with Mexico to provide better border security and stop illegal trade.
Edwards served on the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the US Senate Committee on Justice, and was a member of the New Democratic Coalition.
Prior to Senate 2004 elections, Edwards announced his resignation from the Senate and supported Erskine Bowles, former White House Chief of Staff, in lieu of seats; However, Bowles was defeated by Republican Richard Burr in the election.
Post-Senate Activity
The day after the concession speech, he announced that his wife, Elizabeth, had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Edwards told the Larry King interviewer that he doubted he would return to training as a court lawyer and showed no interest in replacing Terry McAuliffe as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
In February 2005, Edwards entitled "100 Club" Dinner, a major fundraiser for the Democratic Party of New Hampshire. That same month, Edwards was appointed director of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to learn ways to move people out of poverty. That fall, Edwards toured ten major universities to promote "Opportunity Rocks!", A program aimed at engaging young people to fight poverty.
On March 21, 2005, Edwards recorded his first podcast with his wife. A few months later, in August, Edwards delivered a speech to a potential key supporter in the Iowa caucus, AFL-CIO in Waterloo, Iowa.
The following month, Edwards emailed his supporters and announced that he opposed the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts to become US Supreme Court Justice. He also opposed the candidacy of Judge Samuel Alito as Associate Judge and Judge Charles Pickering's appointment to the Federal seat.
During the summer and fall of 2005, he visited homeless shelters and employment training centers and spoke at events hosted by ACORN, NAACP and SEIU. He speaks in favor of extending the income tax credits earned; supporting a crackdown on predatory lending; an increase in the rate of capital gains taxes; housing vouchers for racial minorities (to integrate high-income neighborhoods); and a program modeled at the Works Progress Administration to rehabilitate the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. In Greene County, North Carolina, he launched a pilot program for College for Everyone, a measure of education he promised during his presidential campaign, where prospective students will receive a scholarship for their first year in exchange for ten hours a week. The College for Everyone program was canceled in July 2008.
Edwards is the co-chair of a Foreign Relations Council task force on US-Russian relations with Republican Jack Kemp, former congressman, Cabinet officer and vice presidential candidate. The task force released its report in March 2006. On July 12, the International Herald Tribune published an edited edition by Edwards and Kemp.
In October 2005, Edwards joined the Wall Street investment firm, Fortress Investment Group as a senior adviser and consultant, a position in which a close aide reported that he received an annual salary of $ 500,000. The fort has a large stake in Green Tree Servicing LLC, which became famous in the 1990s selling subprime loans to homeowners and now subprime lending services are from others, but in an interview Edwards said he was unaware of this. Subprime loans allow buyers with poor credit history to be funded, but they charge higher rates because of risks, and sometimes bring hidden fees and increased costs over time. In August 2007, The Wall Street Journal reported that a portion of the Edwards family assets were invested in the Fortress Investment Group, which, in turn, invested some of its assets in subprime mortgage lenders, some of which had seized houses victims of Hurricane Katrina. After knowing Fortress's investment, Edwards divested funds and stated that he would try to help the affected families. Edwards then helped set up the ACORN-run "Louisiana Home Rescue Fund", which was channeled with $ 100,000, mostly from his pocket, to lend and grant to families taken over by the owners of Fortress lenders.
Edwards is now a personal injury lawyer in Pitt County, North Carolina.
Political campaign
Electoral history
Selection of North Carolina Senate United States, 1998 (Prime Democratic Party)
- John Edwards - 277,468 (51.39%)
- D.G. Martin - 149,049 (27,59%)
- Ella Butler Scarborough - 55,486 (10,28%)
Selection of North Carolina Senate United States, 1998
- John Edwards (D) - 1,029,237 (51.15%)
- Lauch Faircloth (R) (inc.) - 945,943 (47,01%)
- Barbara Howe (Lib.) - 36.963 (1.84%)
2004 presidential Democratic president
- John Kerry - 9,930,497 (60,98%)
- John Edwards - 3,162,337 (19,42%)
- Howard Dean - 903,460 (5.55%)
- Dennis Kucinich - 620,242 (3,81%)
- Wesley Clark - 547.369 (3.36%)
- Al Sharpton - 380,865 (2.34%)
- Joe Lieberman - 280.940 (1.73%)
US presidential election, 2004
- George W. Bush/Dick Cheney (R) (inc.) - 62,040,610 (50.7%) and 286 electoral votes (31 countries carried)
- John Kerry/John Edwards (D) - 59,028,111 (48.3%) and 251 electoral votes (19 countries and D.C. done)
- John Ewards [ sic ] (D) - 1 electoral vote (loyal selector)
2008 Democratic presidential election
- Barack Obama - 17,869,542 (48.2%)
- Hillary Clinton - 17,717,698 (47,8%)
- John Edwards - 1,006,289 (2.65%)
2004 presidential campaign
In 2000, Edwards unofficially started his presidential campaign when he began searching for lectures in Iowa, the country's first party caucus site. On January 2, 2003, Edwards began fundraising without formally campaigning by forming an exploratory committee. On September 15, 2003, Edwards fulfilled a promise he made a year earlier as a guest at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to unofficially announce his intention to seek a Democratic presidential nomination in 2004. The next morning, Edwards made the announcement officially from his hometown. He refused to run back to the Senate to focus on his presidential election. Edwards' campaign was led by North Carolina Democratic activist Ed Turlington.
Because Edwards has built up support essentially since his election to the Senate, he led an initial campaign fundraiser, amassing more than $ 7 million during the first quarter of 2003 - more than half of whom are related to the legal profession, especially Edwards lawyer courts , their families, and employees.
Edwards' speech speech speaks of "Two Continent States", with one consisting of rich and privileged people, and the other from the hardworking commoners, causing the media to often characterize Edwards as populist.
Edwards struggled to get great support, but the number of his polls began to rise steadily weeks before the Iowa caucus. Edwards had a surprising second place with 32% support from the delegation, behind only John Kerry who is 39% and above former front runner Howard Dean at 18%. One week later in New Hampshire primary, Edwards finished in fourth place behind Kerry, Dean and Wesley Clark, with 12%. During the February 3 preliminary, Edwards won the South Carolina primary, lost to Clark in Oklahoma, and lost to Kerry in another state. Edwards gathered the second-largest number in second place, falling back behind Clark.
Dean withdrew from the contest, leaving Edwards the only major challenger to Kerry. At primary Wisconsin on February 17, Edwards finished second to Kerry with 34% of the vote.
Edwards largely avoided attacking Kerry until February 29, 2004, a debate in New York, where he characterized him as an "insider to Washington" and ridiculed Kerry's plans to form a committee to examine trade agreements.
In the Super Tuesday preliminary election on March 2, Kerry finished ahead in nine of the ten select states, and Edwards' campaign ended. In Georgia, Edwards finished just a bit behind Kerry but, failing to win one country, opted to retreat from the race. He announced his official withdrawal at a Raleigh press conference in North Carolina on March 3. The withdrawal of Edwards made the mainstream media relatively early on the Super Tuesday night, around 6:30 pm, before the poll closed in California and before the Minnesota caucus even started. It is estimated that withdrawal affects many people in Minnesota to choose another candidate, which can partly explain the settlement of the powerful Minnesota Dennis Kucinich. Edwards won the hay presidential election by the Minnesota Independence Party.
After retiring from the race, he went on to win the April 17 Democrats caucus in his northern state of North Carolina, making him the only Democratic candidate other than Kerry who won a nomination contest in two states in 2004.
2004 vice presidential nomination
On July 6, 2004, Kerry announced that Edwards would be his partner; the decision was widely praised in public opinion polls and by Democratic leaders. Although many Democrats supported Edwards's candidacy, others criticized the election for Edwards who was thought to be lacking experience. In the vice president's debate, Dick Cheney told Edwards that they had never met because of Edwards's frequent absences from the Senate, but that later proved to be untrue. The videotape then emerged from Cheney and Edwards shook hands outside the camera during the recording of Meet the Press on April 8, 2001. On February 1, 2001, Cheney thanked the name of Edwards and sat with him during the prayer breakfast Senate. However, George W Bush's campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt described the event as "a non-essential meeting". On January 8, 2003, they met when John Edwards was accompanied later-Sen. Elizabeth Dole to a mock oath.
Kerry's campaign adviser Bob Shrum later reported in Time magazine that Kerry says she hopes she never picked Edwards, and the two have since stopped talking to each other. Edwards said in a concession speech, "You can be disappointed, but you can not go. The fight has just begun."
presidential campaign 2008
On December 28, 2006, John Edwards officially announced his candidacy for the President in the 2008 election from the yard of a house in New Orleans, Louisiana, which was being rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina destroyed it. Edwards stated that the main goal is to eliminate poverty, fight global warming, provide universal health care, and withdraw troops from Iraq.
The national poll has Edwards put the third among the Democratic field starting in January 2007, behind Senators Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama. In July 2007, Edwards' campaign had raised $ 23 million from nearly 100,000 donors, placing it behind Obama and Clinton in fundraising.
Edwards first boycotted the Fox News-sponsored presidential debate in March 2007. Hillary Clinton, Bill Richardson, and Barack Obama followed suit.
On January 3, 2008, in the Iowa caucus, the first contest of the nomination process, Edwards was second with 29.75% of votes for Obama (37.58%), with Clinton being third with 29.47% of the vote. On January 8, Edwards placed a distant third in the Democratic primary of New Hampshire with just under 17% (48,818 votes). On January 26, Edwards returned to third in primary in South Carolina - his native country - which he brought in 2004, and he finished third in the non-binding January 29 election in Florida.
On January 30, 2008, after major losses and caucuses, Edwards announced that he suspended his campaign for the Presidency. He initially did not support either Clinton or Obama, saying they both had promised to continue the central campaign theme of ending poverty in America. In April 2008, he stated that he would not accept the 2008 vice presidential slot if requested. On May 14, 2008, Edwards officially supported Senator Obama at a rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
On June 15, 2008, Edwards retired from his initial denial of interest in the position of Vice President, saying, "I will take whatever he asks me to think seriously, but it is definitely something I have done and it is not my job search. "On June 20, 2008, The Associated Press reported that according to a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, the names of Edwards and Sam Nunn were on Obama's list of vice presidential candidates. Finally, then-Senator Joe Biden of Delaware was tapped to become Obama's spouse.
Personal life
Family
While at UNC, he meets Elizabeth Anania. They married in 1977 and had four children (Wade in 1979, Cate in 1982, Emma Claire in 1998, and Jack in 2000). Edwards also has an unmarried child, born in 2008, named Frances Quinn Hunter, who was conceived by his ex-girlfriend Rielle Hunter. Edwards denied being a father for more than two years before finally admitting it in 2010.
Wade was killed in a car accident when high winds swept his Jeep off the North Carolina highway in 1996. Three weeks before his death, Wade was honored by First Lady Hillary Clinton at the White House as one of the 10 finalists in an essay contest sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and Voice of America for an essay he wrote upon entering the voting booth with his father. Wade, accompanied by his parents and sister, went to meet North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms, who then enters Wade's essay and his obituary into the Record of Congress . Edwards and his wife started the Wade Edwards Foundation in the memory of their son; the purpose of nonprofit organizations is "to reward, encourage, and inspire young people in the pursuit of excellence." The Foundation funded the Wade Edwards Learning Lab at Wade High School, Needham B. Broughton High School in Raleigh, along with scholarship competitions and awards.
On November 3, 2004, Elizabeth Edwards revealed that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She was treated through chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and continued to work within her husband's Democratic Party and American One Committee. On March 22, 2007, during his campaign for the 2008 Democratic nomination for the presidency, Edwards and his wife announced that the cancer had returned; he was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer, with newly discovered metastases to the bone and possibly to his lungs. They say that the cancer is "no longer curable, but completely treatable" and that they plan to continue to campaign together with occasional breaks when she needs treatment. In June 2010, Elizabeth published a book entitled Resilience . Her book about her marriage struggle and how she was influenced by her husband's infidelity. In the book, Elizabeth talks about how long she's in the dark about her affair and how many times her husband, John, lies about the details of the affair. He never talked to the mistress of John by name but called him "parasite groupie" and claimed that he was miserable. Elizabeth also opens up about how she tried to forgive her husband after she first found out about the affair but struggled to find forgiveness when she continued to lie. After Edwards' January 21, 2010, admitted that he was the father of a child with his mistress, Elizabeth was legally separated from him and intended to file for divorce after a year waiting for the mandatory period.
On December 7, 2010, Elizabeth died of metastatic breast cancer at the age of 61 years.
Residence
In Washington. D.C. he lives at Embassy Row, 2215 30th Street.
Her next-door neighbor is media owner David G. Bradley.
In 2004, he sold his home to the Hungarian Embassy to the United States.
Extra-marital affair
In October 2007, The National Enquirer began a series of reports alleging an affair between Edwards and former Rielle Hunter campaigner. In July 2008, some mass media speculated that Edwards's possibilities for the Vice-Presidency as well as other positions such as the Attorney General were harmed by accusations, which now included that he fathered a child with Hunter and had visited him and his baby. girl at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. However, the story was not widely covered by the press for some time, until, having initially denied the allegations, Edwards admitted the affair. On January 21, 2010, John Edwards issued a press release to acknowledge that he was the father of a Hunter boy.
In an August 8, 2008 statement, and an interview with Bob Woodruff of ABC News, Edwards admitted his affair with Hunter in 2006, but refused to be the father of his son. He admits that he has been dishonest in denying the whole story of the Enquirer, admitting that some of it is true, but saying that infidelity ends long before the time of conception of the child. He further said he was willing to conduct a paternity test, but Hunter replied that he would not be party to a DNA test "now or in the future". Initially, campaign aide Andrew Young claimed that he, not Edwards, was the boy's father. Since then, Young releases the statement, and notifies the publisher in a book proposal that Edwards always knew he was the boy's father; Young accuses Edwards of pleading with him to misaccept responsibility.
In the proposal, which The New York Times examined, Young claims to have arranged a private meeting between Edwards and Hunter. He wrote that Edwards once calmed an anxious Hunter by promising that after his wife died, he would marry her at a roof ceremony in New York with an appearance by Dave Matthews Band. ABC News reported that Young stated that Edwards asked him to "get a doctor to fake DNA results... and steal diapers from a baby so he can secretly do a DNA test to see if this is indeed his child." On February 2, 2010, Young released a a book detailing the affair. Young also began working with Aaron Sorkin in the movie about infidelity based on The Politician's book. On February 23, 2012, an Orange County judge, NC ruled that Young and his wife could not publish the film. The judge also ruled that the alleged "sex tape" of Edwards and Hunter was destroyed by the court. The judge also only allows material that already exists in the public domain to be used for public purposes. All photos and other materials that have not been released, can only be used for family purposes.
In response to a scandal involving Edwards' extra-marital affair and attempts to cover it up, he has stated "I am a sinner, but not a criminal."
In May 2009, the newspaper reported that Edwards's campaign was under investigation for the conversion of campaign money for personal use in connection with infidelity. Edwards said the campaign was in line with the investigation. The relevant US attorney declined to comment. That same month, George Stephanopoulos of ABC News reported that Edwards staff members had told him that they had planned a "doomsday strategy" to thwart Edwards's campaign if he approached the nomination. Joe Trippi, senior campaign adviser, said the report was "nonsense". In August 2009, Rielle Hunter appeared before the grand jury investigated the matter. On March 15, 2010, Hunter broke his silence during an interview with GQ magazine and provided new details about the affair. In March 2011, voicemail messages allegedly abandoned by John Edwards were obtained, which Young said proved that Edwards arranged to cover up his affair with Hunter.
The report appeared in late 2011 at The National Enquirer and RadarOnline.com that Edwards asked his former mistress to move to his home in North Carolina, where he once lived with his wife. Rielle Hunter announced her breakup with Edwards on the same day she released a book about their relationship in 2012.
On February 9, 2016, Hunter spoke at Steve Harvey in his first television interview in nearly five years, Hunter, 51, said the couple were actually still together until February 2015.
The indictment and trial
On May 24, 2011, ABC News and the New York Times reported that the US Department of Justice's Public Integrity Division has been conducting a two-year investigation into whether Edwards has used more than $ 1 million in political donations to hide his affair and plan to pursue criminal charges over alleged violations of campaign finance laws.
On June 3, 2011, Edwards was charged by a federal jury in North Carolina for six counts of crimes, including four counts of collecting illegal campaign donations, a conspiracy charge, and one charge of making false statements.
After delaying the start of the trial while Edwards was treated for a heart condition in February 2012, Judge Catherine Eagles of the US District Court for North Central District of North Carolina is scheduled for jury selection to begin on April 12, 2012. Edwards test begins on April 23, 2012, 30 years in prison and a $ 1.5 million fine.
In related developments, on March 13, 2012, the Federal Electoral Commission ruled that Edwards's campaign should pay $ 2.1 million in suitable federal funds. Lawyer Edwards claimed the money was used, and that the campaign did not receive all the eligible funds, but the commission dismissed the argument.
Twelve jurors and four alternatives sat down, and opened the argument from April 23, 2012. The closing argument lasted May 17, and the case went to the jury the next day.
On May 31, 2012, Edwards was found not guilty in Count 3, the use of illegal campaign funds (contributions from Rachel "Bunny" Mellon), while mistrials expressed on all other charges against him. On June 13, 2012, the Justice Department announced that they cancel the charges and will not try to repeat Edwards.
Return to legal practice
Edwards has returned to law after his political career ended. Together with lawyers David Kirby and William Bystrynski, he founded Edwards Kirby's law firm in Raleigh. Her daughter, Cate, is a lawyer for the San Diego firm office. Vidant Health and Pitt County, North Carolina, is the place for Edward 2014 to return to the malpractice arena.
Bibliography
- Four Exam (with John Auchard) (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003) ISBNÃ, 0-7432-4497-4
- Home: Blueprints Our Lives (New York: Collins, 2006) ISBN: 0-06-088454-1
- Ending Poverty in America: How to Restore the American Dream , co-editor (New Press, 2007) ISBNÃ, 1-59558-176-6
See also
- List of federal political sex scandals in the United States
- Two Continents
- US presidential elections, 2008
- Official and Potential 2008 Election of President of the United States Democratic Candidate
- Polls for the Democratic presidential candidate (USA), 2008
- Democratic presidential debate, 2008
References
External links
- law firm Edwards Kirby Law Firm Edwards, in Raleigh NC
- John Edwards for the President's official campaign website
- John Edwards '08 Official blog blog blog
- John Edwards in Curlie (based on DMOZ)
- Biography at the Directory of Congressional Biographies of the United States
- Profile in Project Vote Smart
- Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Electoral Commission
- Appearance in C-SPAN
- Record
- Biography at the Directory of Congressional Biographies of the United States
- Profile in Project Vote Smart
- Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Electoral Commission
- Speeches and statements
- July 27, 2004, the speech of the Democratic National Convention: The text of the transcript
- October 5, 2004, vice president debate: Transcript, Audio and Video text
- January 18, 2008, presidential campaign speech in Los Angeles, video
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