Remind me again...why WAS John Edwards put on trial?

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6. The charges against him are quite serious

This is not about sex, this is about a politician who essentially used bribery to cover up a personal scandal. The affair is not a huge issue with me, that is between him and his family and I don't really see it as any of my business. Using campaign dollars to cover it up however is a big deal, many working class people donated their hard earned money to his campaign having no clue it was being used for this.

I think Edwards brought the hell he is going through on himself and I think he deserves to be prosecuted, I will say however that it does bother me that these politicians only seem to be held to account when sex is involved. Money corrupts politics in so many ways and there is such massive corruption in Washington but it rarely seems to be prosecuted unless it involves sex. That is my only problem with the Edwards prosecution, there are so many other politicians who are just as corrupt or more so but as long as they keep their pants on they don't ever seem to be held to account for it. A politician's sex life is none of my business, how they use money to influence public policy is and I wish more corrupt politicians were prosecuted because way too many of them are corrupt and they don't get prosecuted for that corruption no matter how blatant it is.