Chelsea set to wed fraudster's son

Reuters

MARRIED: Chelsea Clinton has married her long time beau Marc Mezvinsky.

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Her own father is no stranger to controversy, but now it has been revealed that Chelsea Clinton's future father-in-law is a convicted fraudster.

Ed Mezvinsky - whose son Marc is set to marry Ms Clinton - served five years in jail over a $9million scam in which a judge described the 73-year-old's actions as a "one-man crime wave", the UK's Daily Mail reported.

The former congressman has since expressed remorse for his actions, which saw him take his own mother-in-law's money by funding Nigerian-style internet scams.

Mr Mezinsky eventually lost everything and still owes millions of dollars in compensation to his victims - several who will be at Saturday's wedding.

But the revelations are doing little to dampen the excitement about the marriage on Saturday, with the event capturing the attention of the US.

The battle now for the Clinton and Mezvinsky families is keeping details of the wedding a secret.

Officially, almost all that's known is that Chelsea, 30, is to wed Marc Mezvinsky, 32, the man she first met as a teenager, on Saturday.

The location, type of ceremony, guest list and colour of the bride's dress remain unconfirmed.

All signals point to the wedding taking place at Rhinebeck, a quaint town in upstate New York. Paparazzi have snapped pictures of a huge white tent going up in the secluded grounds of Astor Courts estate.

Local store owners testify to the presence of well-heeled out-of-towners and men talking into mobile phones about security.

The Federal Aviation Authority has since ordered airspace shut over the location during Saturday afternoon, citing a "VIP (Very Important Person) Movement."

The guest list has also been the centre of debate, with gossip news hounds persistently mentioning Hollywood and Washington high-fliers.

Clinton friends including Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, and, perhaps surprisingly, the former British prime minister John Major are expected to attend.

SMH with agencies

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