GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) – The wife of an ex-aide to John Edwards broke down on the witness stand Monday as she recounted how the candidate asked the couple to hide his affair.
Testifying at Edwards’ campaign corruption trial, Cheri Young said she huddled around a phone in December 2007 with her husband and Edwards’ pregnant mistress.
On the call, Young said, Edwards emphasized the need to preserve his campaign and keep the affair from his cancer-stricken wife.
 
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