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Witness: Edwards asked heiress for more money
May 07, 2012
May 07, 2012
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write to explain her reasons for declining his request.
Willis said the letter was never sent to Edwards at the direction of one of Mellon's lawyers, who reviewed the document before it was to be mailed. It was then well known that Edwards was under investigation by a grand jury in North Carolina.
However, the jury considering Edwards' fate heard nothing about the financial request, made about three weeks before his June 2011 indictment on six counts related to alleged campaign finance violations. As a prosecutor questioned Willis -- librarian of a vast private botanical library located on Mellon's 2,100-acre
write to explain her reasons for declining his request.
Willis said the letter was never sent to Edwards at the direction of one of Mellon's lawyers, who reviewed the document before it was to be mailed. It was then well known that Edwards was under investigation by a grand jury in North Carolina.
However, the jury considering Edwards' fate heard nothing about the financial request, made about three weeks before his June 2011 indictment on six counts related to alleged campaign finance violations. As a prosecutor questioned Willis -- librarian of a vast private botanical library located on Mellon's 2,100-acre
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