While all the focus of infedility has been on Governor Sanford, former Senator John Edwards seems to be having some major legal issues coming his way. The Senator, who looked in the camera and insisted that he wasn’t the father of Rielle Hunter’s baby, may now admit the obvious.
The scuttlebutt around North Carolina is that John Edwards’ wife, Elizabeth had known about the affair while the Senator was running for President and has known all along that Edwards was the father. Looks like she put the opportunity of power before the country.
The question, will the media follow this story as closely as the followed the Sanford story.
Mr. Edwards, the one-term senator who came close to being elected vice president in 2004 and ran a credible campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, remains largely secluded at his 100-acre estate here.
But a federal grand jury in nearby Raleigh is investigating whether any crimes were committed in connection with campaign laws in an effort to conceal his extramarital affair with a woman named Rielle Hunter. At the same time, Mr. Edwards is moving toward an abrupt reversal in his public posture; associates said in interviews that he is considering declaring that he is the father of Ms. Hunter’s 19-month-old daughter, something that he once flatly asserted in a television interview was not possible.
Friends and other associates of Mr. Edwards and his wife of 32 years, Elizabeth, say she has resisted the idea of her husband’s claiming paternity. Mrs. Edwards, who is battling cancer, “has yet to be brought around,” said one family friend, who like others spoke about the situation on the condition of anonymity, pointing to the complicated and delicate nature of the issue.
The situation may become more fraught, as people who know Ms. Hunter said she was planning to move with her daughter, Frances, from New Jersey to North Carolina in coming months.
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