A FEDERAL grand jury indicted two-time presidential candidate John Edwards yesterday over $925,000 (€634,117) spent to keep his mistress and their baby in hiding during the peak of his 2008 campaign for the White House.

AN INSIDER’S account of John Edwards’ affair and the lengths he went to hide his mistress will be developed into a movie, a former aide to the two-time presidential candidate has revealed.

Lawyers for John Edwards' mistress criticised a former aide to the former Democratic presidential candidate after he turned over a video camera that belonged to the woman.

Elizabeth Edwards separated from husband John Edwards, the former US presidential candidate who lied about both cheating on his cancer-stricken wife and the child he fathered during his affair.

Former US presidential candidate John Edwards, who won nationwide praise and sympathy as he campaigned side by side with his cancer-stricken wife Elizabeth, finally admitted to an affair he had previously described as “tabloid trash”.