After Mr. Chang's arrest on campaign-finance, conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges, Mr. Critchley announced in court that Mr. Chang had "no information about any criminal wrongdoing" by any public officials, mentioning President Clinton, Senator Torricelli and Mr. McAuliffe by name.
No accounting of this £20,000 was ever provided; Holmes, Le Mesurier and Deakin all said that it was used to finance a "conspiracy to frighten", although they disagreed as to how much was spent.
A New York businessman accused of trying to funnel money to a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges of terrorism financing and conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
Mr. Edwards, 58, faces six charges of violating campaign finance laws and conspiracy.
Mr. Edwards had been on trial in Greensboro, N.C., facing six charges related to campaign finance fraud and conspiracy.
But the two lives of John Edwards have collided spectacularly in a federal courthouse here, where the government is trying him on six counts of campaign finance fraud and conspiracy.
And, of course, on Thursday, a federal judge declared a mistrial on five charges of campaign finance fraud and conspiracy in the trial of the former presidential candidate John Edwards.
But he never once deviated from the notion that he remains popular, a victim of a conspiracy financed by outsiders — offering the same kind of logic that was heard in Libya and Egypt before uprisings brought down longtime autocrats.
The group, financed with funds channelled from wealthy industrialists, introduced Hitler to the idea of a Jewish conspiracy, linking international finance with Bolshevism.
He faces six counts of conspiracy and campaign finance violations.
The government has charged Mr. Edwards with six counts of conspiracy and campaign finance violations, contending that he was trying to hide the affair during his effort to win the 2008 Democratic nomination for president.
