Fred Baron, a trial lawyer and top fundraiser for John Edwards, has admitted to paying for Rielle Hunter to relocate. He wouldn’t say exactly how much he spent to relocate Edwards’ mistress, but claims the former presidential candidate was kept in the dark about the arrangement.

Mr. Baron, who was chairman of Mr. Edwards’ presidential campaign finance committee, said he paid money for Rielle Hunter to move from North Carolina to another location.

He said she and another campaign aide, Andrew Young, who claimed paternity of Ms. Hunter’s child, were being dogged by tabloid reporters who believed she had an affair with Mr. Edwards and fathered the child…

“The money was purely and simply to get them out of North Carolina and to get them into a stable place,” he said. “They were unable to afford a second home. It was to give them the ability to live somewhere where they wouldn’t be harassed.”

Call me a bit skeptical. Was the finance chair for Edwards’ committe really concerned about whether or not Hunter was being inconvenienced? Or was he concerned that the truth would get out and sink Edwards’ campaign, so he moved her away and funded her? Usually shiny-new BMWs aren’t required in order to get the press off your tail.