Fundraiser Linked to Edwards Scandal Dies at 61

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DALLAS —  Frederick Baron, a wealthy Texas trial lawyer and prominent Democratic fundraiser linked to the John Edwards mistress scandal, died Thursday. He was 61.

Baron died following complications from cancer, said Harrison Hickman, a family spokesman.

Baron had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, or bone marrow cancer. His death comes just two weeks after he obtained an experimental cancer-fighting treatment following a public plea by his son, Andrew, who had called the drug Tysabri his "last chance effort for life." ...

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