February 16, 2011
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BRUCE A. BRENNAN BLOG FROM THE WORLD AND MY MIND
The news as I see it and the views as I want them.
John Edwards continues his fall from grace. This apparently selfish individual is about to put his children through another emotional mess only months after their mother died. Prosecutors may soon bring criminal charges against former presidential candidate John Edwards, who is being investigated about possible misuse of campaign donations to cover up his affair and love child with Rielle Hunter.
Edwards could be indicted by a federal grand jury in days or weeks, NBC News reported today, citing anonymous sources close to the investigation. The Justice Department is still reviewing the case, sources told the network, but could allow prosecutors to bring charges against Edwards. WRAL-TV said prosecutors will say whether they have decided to indict Edwards in late February or early March but did not cite a source. The Justice Department did not immediately return a call for comment today by AOL News. The case hinges on the testimony of two key witnesses, Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, a donor, and Andrew Young, who served as an aide to Edwards during his 2008 campaign and initially said he fathered Hunter's daughter. Paul Ryan, an attorney with the Campaign Legal Center and an expert on campaign finance law, said prosecutors will have to prove that Edwards knew the campaign donations were being used to hide his affair. "Did he knowingly violate campaign laws? That's the question," Ryan told AOL News in a phone interview today. Fred Baron, Edwards' finance chairman, admitted before his death in 2008 that he helped hide a pregnant Hunter in California estates in 2007, but he said Edwards knew nothing about the campaign money being used to conceal the mistress. "John Edwards was not aware that assistance was provided to anyone involved in this matter," he said in August 2008.
Edwards could be indicted by a federal grand jury in days or weeks, NBC News reported today, citing anonymous sources close to the investigation. The Justice Department is still reviewing the case, sources told the network, but could allow prosecutors to bring charges against Edwards. WRAL-TV said prosecutors will say whether they have decided to indict Edwards in late February or early March but did not cite a source. The Justice Department did not immediately return a call for comment today by AOL News. The case hinges on the testimony of two key witnesses, Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, a donor, and Andrew Young, who served as an aide to Edwards during his 2008 campaign and initially said he fathered Hunter's daughter. Paul Ryan, an attorney with the Campaign Legal Center and an expert on campaign finance law, said prosecutors will have to prove that Edwards knew the campaign donations were being used to hide his affair. "Did he knowingly violate campaign laws? That's the question," Ryan told AOL News in a phone interview today. Fred Baron, Edwards' finance chairman, admitted before his death in 2008 that he helped hide a pregnant Hunter in California estates in 2007, but he said Edwards knew nothing about the campaign money being used to conceal the mistress. "John Edwards was not aware that assistance was provided to anyone involved in this matter," he said in August 2008.
“That’s three down. We move now to Arlene Francis.” On this day in 1950, Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, humorist Hal Block, and Louis Untermeyer joined host John Daly as one of the classics of early television debuted on CBS. What’s My Line stayed on the air for 17 years, the longest-running game show in the history of prime-time network television and launched one of TV’s biggest production companies: that of Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. During many years in the television industry, the Goodson-Todman name became famous for such hit game shows as I’ve Got a Secret, Beat the Clock, The Name’s the Same, To Tell the Truth, The Price is Right and The Match Game. What many people don’t know is that Mark Goodson and Bill Todman also produced a dramatic anthology, The Web, which aired on CBS-TV from July 1950 through September 1954 and then on NBC-TV (for four months) in 1957. As the announcer for these shows would say, “This program is a Mark Goodson - Bill Todman Production.” |
On this date in history;
0374 - 9th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
0600 - Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze
0600 - Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze
1923 Howard Carter finds Pharoah Tutankhamen
1943 Sign on Munich facade "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" done by "White Rose" student group, caught on 2/18, beheaded on 2/22
1943 Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa
1945 US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3
1945 Venezuela declares war on Nazi-Germany. Better late than never!
1943 Withdrawing Africa Corps reaches Mareth-line in North-Africa
1945 US forces land on Corregidor, complete conquest on March 3
1945 Venezuela declares war on Nazi-Germany. Better late than never!
1959 Fidel Castro named himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista. Longevity has to count for something.
1963 - The Beatles moved to the top of the British rock charts with Please, Please Me exactly one month after the record was released. It was the start of the Beatles domination of the British music charts, as well as the beginning of the British Invasion in America and elsewhere around the world.
1968 - Elvis Presley received a gold record for his sacred album of hymns, How Great Thou Art. Despite his popularity in the pop music world, Elvis won only 3 Grammy Awards -- one for this album, the Lifetime Achievement Award in 1970; then for He Touched Me in 1972. He did, however, receive over a dozen Grammy nominations.
At the top of the music charts on February 16th:
1951
1959 Stagger Lee - Lloyd Price
1967 I’m a Believer - The Monkees
1975 You’re No Good
1983 Down Under - Men at Work
1991 Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now) - C & C Music Factory
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