Sources say a DNA test shows what we already knew – that former presidential hopeful John Edwards fathered former campaign aide Rielle Hunter’s baby.
The National Enquirer, which last year broke the story of Edwards’ affair with the weird campaign videographer, said the test was taken after Hunter tried to get financial help from Edwards for her 18-month-old daughter, Frances Quinn.
Rielle Hunter agreed to testify to a federal grand jury investigating John Edwards for allegedly paying “hush” money out of his campaign coffers to Hunter and another former aide who claimed paternity of the child, Andrew Young.
Fall guy Young is rumored to have turned on Edwards. Rielle Hunter was spotted last week in Raleigh, N.C., entering a federal courthouse and staying nine hours.
John Edwards adamantly denied during a confessional interview with ABC News that he fathered the child with Hunter, saying he welcomed a paternity test.
Conveniently, Rielle said at the time she would not allow it.
Rielle Hunter’s daughter Frances has her daddy’s eyes, doesn’t she?
Also convenient for John Edwards? Andrew Young has said from the start that he was the child’s father, and fell off the face of the Earth. Problem solved!
Until the feds got involved, that is.
Investigators want to know the real reason Edwards’ political action committee paid Hunter’s “production company” $100,000 for “work” in 2006, then paid her another $14,086 on April 1, 2007. Suspicious for four brief web videos, no?
Grand jury proceedings are kept secret until charges are filed, and the U.S. attorney’s office in Raleigh has declined to confirm or deny there is an investigation. However, Edwards has already acknowledged his finances being scrutinized.
Andrew Young hasn’t spoken publicly since saying he was the father in 2007. He is rumored to have possess a Rielle-John Edwards sex tape, too.