edwin edwards

The couple has chosen the name Eli Wallace Edwards. The former governor's full name is Edwin Washington Edwards. He and Eli will share the initials E.W.E.

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New show will star the 83 year old former governor and his 34 year old wife

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Edwin Edwards is a free man today. Well, mostly. The former Louisiana Governor has completed the home confinement portion of his ten year sentence for racketeering and is now moving into a home with fiancee Tina Grimes Scott in Gonzales. EWE will still have to check in with probation officers for the next three years and needs permission to travel. There are no reports of an official Welcome Home party, but

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Reports are all over the internet that Edwin Edwards has posted on facebook that he is talking to a producer about a reality show featuring himself and his reported fiance Trina Grimes Scott.
Is it really the former Louisiana Governor's facebook page? Is it the start of a new career path? Could EWE be television's new reality star? Is he the next 'Bachelor?' Could this be the real reason legislators are trying to keep convicts off social networking sites? Stay tuned for more 'As Louisiana Turns...'

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Associated Press Reporting
Former Gov. Edwin Edwards has been released from federal prison and is being allowed to complete his sentence in home detention, rather than in a halfway house.

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(WAFB) 

Former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards has been released from the federal prison at Oakdale. He arrived at a halfway house in Baton Rouge this morning. The 83-year old four term governor has served eight-and-a-half years of a ten-year prison sentence for corrupting the state's gaming license process

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By Jonathan Tilove

The specific date for Edwards' release has not been made public. The federal Bureau of Prisons said it does not announce the date in advance of the release.

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