A federal grand jury indicted two-time presidential candidate John Edwards on Friday over $925,000 spent to keep his mistress and their baby in hiding during the peak of his 2008 campaign for the White House. The case of USA v. Johnny Reid Edwards contains six counts, including conspiracy, four counts of illegal campaign contributions and one count of false statements ...
An order for his arrest was issued immediately. Edwards is expected to appear in Federal Court in Winston-Salem in early afternoon for arraignment.
Edwards appeared in federal court in Winston-Salem before U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick Auld to hear the charges against him. Sources say Edwards, 58, was offered a plea deal before Friday’s announcement but declined to take it.
The indictment alleges Edwards conspired to violate federal campaign-finance laws, made false statements to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), and accepted and received illegal campaign contributions that he later used to defray the expenses of mistress Reille Hunter, who gave birth to the child Edwards had denied fathering for two years, before he admitted it last year. Edwards has also been charged with trying to conceal the donations, which Edwards has described as gifts, from the FEC.
U.S. Attorney George E.B. Holding of the Eastern District of North Carolina stated, “Without vigorously enforced campaign finance laws, the people of this country lose their voice. The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the Department of Justice are committed to the prosecution of individuals who abuse the very system of which they seek to become a part.”
Social and fiscal conservatives bemoaned the developments as part of a trend of escalating scandals that illustrate what they see as the corrupting influence that an out-of-control government has had on leaders of both parties inside the Beltway.
“Anytime government is too deeply involved in people’s lives, either through taking too much of their income or regulating every aspect of their lives, there’s a danger of corruption,” said Ralph Reed, the former Christian Coalition leader whose new organization, the Faith and Freedom Coalition, is kicking off a major conference in the nation’s capital to help elect principled conservatives with strong moral beliefs.
In an exclusive Newsmax interview shortly after the indictments were announced, Reed told Newsmax that the ongoing spate of scandals at the top levels of governance are directly linked to the flood of special-interest money and influence inside the Beltway.
“And frankly, it’s a pox on both parties, it doesn’t matter whether its Republicans or Democrats,” he said. “If government is too big, if it’s out of control, and it’s taking too much of our income, and it’s regulating our lives too much, then people try to influence it and they do so in a corrupt manner.
"What we’re about at the Faith and Freedom Coalition is electing men and women of principle and faith in God and of strong moral beliefs who can get in there and change the system.
“We can’t just put those people in the same system we have,” Reed said. “We have to elect them and appoint them, and then we have to change the system.”
Reed’s take on scandal-plagued Washington echoed those of GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann, who is widely expected to announce her candidacy for the GOP presidential nomination this month.
Bachmann told Newsmax in an exclusive interview that the Beltway elites running the country have stopped listening to heartland Americans, adding, “We’re not serfs working in the Middle Ages for the nobles.”
“I think it's because of the corrupt paradigm that has become Washington, D.C., whereby votes continually are bought rather than representatives voting the will of their constituents,” Bachmann told Newsmax. “That's the conundrum of the American people that they now have to live under, and I think the rise of the tea party movement has brought that issue there.
“People are recognizing all across the United States that they can't trust politicians anymore,” Bachmann added. “They actually have to get involved in their government in order to wrest it away from the politicians so that those views won't reflect those of the people. Otherwise, they see that we're going to lose the nation for the next generation.”
Such observations suggested the backlash to Washington’s ethical issues could help unite social and fiscal conservatives during the 2012 political cycle. A Pew Forum survey has determined 40 percent of tea party members identify themselves as Christian conservatives, suggesting a powerful alliance if the two groups unite.
Neither Bachmann nor Reed suggested that the GOP is immune from the grave moral failings they see as directly linked to the confluence of power, money, and politics that are Washington’s stock and trade. Indeed, there are many example of high-profile politicians snared in scandals on both sides of the aisle.
This week, Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner, a firebrand New York liberal, hemmed that he could not say for sure whether a lewd picture sent to a woman via his Twitter account was an image of him.
Weiner, who has ambitions of someday being mayor of New York City, claimed his Twitter account had been hacked. He lashed out at journalists who asked probing questions in an effort to get the complete story.
On Friday, the Weiner drama became even more bizarre, as the woman who received the image told the New York Post she doesn’t believe the hacking story, and thinks Weiner may have intended to send the image to a porn star with a similar name.
"I'm just collateral damage," Gennette Cordova, a 21-year-old college student from Seattle, told The Post.
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