Follow the Money: L'Affair Edwards Continues

The Edwards affair may work great in the tabloids and generate a few hits here at A Blog For All, to say nothing of the media spiking the story until it was impossible to ignore when John Edwards admitted to the affair with Rielle Hunter, but we're getting to a real interesting quandry for the Edwards camp.

Who was giving the money to Rielle Hunter and did it violate campaign finance rules? Well, it looks like Fred Baron has his deep pockets involved:

The review found that Mr. Edwards’s political action committee went to unusual lengths to make a final $14,000 payment to Ms. Hunter’s film company months after its contract with the committee had ended. The payment was issued while the committee was short on cash and could pay its bills only after receiving thousands of dollars from Mr. Edwards’s presidential campaign and donations from four people, including Mr. Baron’s wife.

If you had donated to the Edwards campaign, do you think your money should have gone to paying off Hunter when there were other campaign expenses that were more important? Why go to the lengths that the Edwards campaign did to make sure Hunter was paid? Was it a quid-pro-quo to keep Hunter from talking to the press about her affair with Edwards?

The Times may have been the first major paper to run with this story, but the blogosphere was asking this question days ago. They're no closer to answering the key questions than the bloggers were, and haven't exactly advanced the story.

This problem may have started with Edwards' affair, but it doesn't end there. Fred Baron is now working for the Obama campaign. He's already given the maximum amount of $2,300 to the Obama campaign and is working as a bundler.