Ex-Edwards aide: Cash went to house, not mistress
By Associated Press in Greensboro, North Carolina | China Daily | Updated: 2012-04-28 08:06
Former presidential candidate and US Senator John Edwards, center, arrives outside federal court with his daughter Cate in Greensboro, North Carolina, for his trial on charges of violating federal campaign finance laws on Monday. Chuck Burton / Associated Press |
A former aide acknowledged during John Edwards' campaign finance fraud trial on Thursday that much of nearly $1 million in cash from donors went to build the aide's dream house, not to buy the silence of the presidential candidate's pregnant mistress.
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