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Edwards admits to affair he denied as candidate
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-08-09 18:55 Edwards also said the tabloid was correct when it reported on his meeting with Hunter at the Beverly Hills Hilton last month and that it would be the American people's "judgement to make" as to what they think of him now after trusting him.
The Edwardses have three children - Cate, Jack and Emma Claire. Another son, Wade, died at 16 in a 1996 car accident. In his statement, Edwards denied making any payments to Hunter or "or to the apparent father of the baby." Late Friday, Dallas-based attorney Fred Baron, former national finance chairman for Edwards, said in a statement he decided on his own to "help two friends and former colleagues rebuild their lives when harassment by supermarket tabloids made it impossible for them to move forward on their own." Baron didn't mention anyone by name in his statement. He said the assistance was offered and accepted without the knowledge of Edwards or anyone else. In 2006, Edwards' political action committee paid $100,000 in a four-month span to a newly formed company run by Hunter, who directed the production of four Web videos showing Edwards in supposedly candid moments as well as in a public speech talking about morality. The payments from Edwards' One America Committee to Midline Groove Productions LLC started on July 5, 2006, five days after Hunter incorporated the firm in Delaware. Midline provided "Website/Internet services," according to reports that Edwards' PAC filed with the Federal Election Commission. Edwards' PAC followed the six-figure payment with two smaller payments totaling $14,461, the last on April 1, 2007. |
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