Jury Deliberation Drags on in John Edwards Trial

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…

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FBI Questions W. Va Treasurer’s Employees in Widening Probe

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…

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