John Edwards, the former Democratic U.S. presidential candidate accused of flouting campaign finance laws to hide his mistress and her pregnancy from the public, added new attorneys to the team representing him in his federal criminal case.
Two Greensboro lawyers who represented Rielle Hunter, the campaign videographer with whom Edwards had an extramarital affair and a daughter, have joined the former senator’s trial team.
Alan Duncan and Allison Van Laningham, the new additions, represented Hunter in her civil case against Andrew Young , a former campaign aide who wrote a tell-all book about the presidential campaign, and his wife, Cheri Young.
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