lawfag here - Q likes to post old articles showing the switcheroo - here is one from the Compost
The Post's View
The questionable legal case against John Edwards
By Editorial June 3, 2011 - The conspiracy, the indictment alleges, was “to protect and advance Edwards’s candidacy by secretly obtaining and using hundreds of thousands of dollars” to “conceal Edwards’ extramarital affair”… a criminal case based on this novel application of the law goes too far….
WAS THER COMPOST CORRECT? YES THEY WERE - SO MANY PROOFS HERE IS ONE:
John Edwards' Hush Money Was Not Illegal, FEC Told Campaign
Good Morning America
JAMES HILL, BETH LOYD and RUSSELL GOLDMAN
Good Morning AmericaMay 14, 2012
After John Edwards was indicted, Federal Election Commission auditors determined that the hush money he received from wealthy donors to cover up a torrid affair did not need to be reported in the campaign's financial disclosure reports….
OH AND THEN WHAT HABBENED?
By JOSH GERSTEIN 06/13/2012 04:35 PM EDT Updated 06/14/2012 08:11 AM EDT
The Justice Department has dropped its prosecution of former Sen. John Edwards over nearly $1 million in payments his backers made to support his pregnant mistress during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Now the legal assholes in thge demrat party (Harvard rats) KNOW this so here is the effort to spin these facts into another failed indictment - they claim some magic differnce in the Edwards case - That "…the Edwards prosecution turned on the meaning of a “contribution” under FECA: were the secret payments, in fact, “contributions” subject to federal regulation?" They go on to split hairs and pretend that the cases are different - as with any shitpost it takes more time to dissect it that its worth - so see the article for a good KEK - https://blog.harvardlawreview.org/the-coming-storm-hush-money-and-the-federal-election-campaign-act/
just to put a final nail in the coffin of this ABSURD argument consider former chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Bradley Smith analysis:
Campaign finance laws state that candidates cannot use campaign funds for expenses that would exist irrespective of the campaign, Bradley explained. These laws were created to thwart bribery and to prevent candidates from misusing funds for their own benefit.
“Personal debts, for example, are ‘related to’ the campaign—if unpaid, the candidate’s reputation might suffer, Bradley wrote. “A Rolex watch, a new suit, or a haircut might help a candidate look good on the trail.”
While a candidate is prohibited from spending campaign funds on expenses merely related to the campaign, expenses on items and services which exist solely for the campaign, like bumper stickers and billboards, must be paid for with campaign funds.
“If paying hush money is a campaign expense, a candidate would be required to make that payment with campaign funds,” Bradley said. “How ironic, given that using campaign funds as hush money was one of the articles of impeachment in the Watergate scandal, which gave rise to modern campaign-finance law.”
Cohen’s payment to the woman who claims to have had an affair with Trump would have to be paid with campaign funds if it is to be viewed as a campaign contribution. But paying someone to keep silent about an alleged extramarital affair is not an expense solely related to a campaign, Bradley explained.
CASE CLOSED!