A lawyer fired by his firm claims that he helped the John Edwards presidential campaign raise money illegally, according to a story in today’s Detroit News. Shortly after joining the firm (which is run by the notorious Geoffrey Fieger, the potty-mouthed attorney for Jack Kevorkian and an occasional Democratic candidate for various Michigan offices), the lawyer says he was “urged” to donate to Edwards on behalf of himself and his wife and then was reimbursed by the firm. The Detroit News claims that 14 people in Fieger’s firm gave the maximum $2,000 donation to Edwards, including a building manager and a “courier supervisor.” This all smells fishy, of course, and it also recalls a similar Edwards mini-scandal that was exposed in 2003.