But three months later, on April 1, 2007, the committee made another payment to Midline for $14,086, which coincided with the receipt of $14,035 by the committee from Mr. Edwards’s presidential campaign to cover the cost of office furniture, according to Federal Election Commission reports. The infusion of cash from the presidential campaign was necessary to make the payment to Midline, because the committee began April with only $7,932 in the bank, the reports show. The only other money the committee took in during that quarter was donations totaling $18,000 from Mr. Baron’s wife and three other people.
A senior official in the Edwards campaign, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the final payment to Ms. Hunter covered the cost of video clips she took of Mr. Edwards under her 2006 contract. The payment did not occur until April because it took that long for the committee to get Ms. Hunter to turn over the video, the former official said. |
