Again, it doesn't take a vivid imagination to think that this was simply hush money.
Wall Street pays its hush money, but the country's recovery bails out brokers and banks.
In fact, hush money and even blackmail has probably been claimed on more tax returns than you might think.
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Whatever the motivation behind the undisclosed payments, they tend to come off looking more like hush money than honorable reimbursement.
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Independent counsel Kenneth Starr is investigating whether any of the help may have been hush money for Hubbell, a key Whitewater witness.
In more stark terms, whatever the motivation behind the payments, they tend to come off looking more like hush money than honorable compensation.
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By brilliantly investing cash it can find profitable investments for shareholders that will push the stock price higher rather than giving them hush money.
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Starr's prosecutors have investigated whether the Clinton White House arranged that work for Hubbell as "hush money" payments to keep him quiet in Starr's investigation.
He believes celebrities are easy targets for malicious and opportunistic litigation and says they should fight like hell in court rather than shell out hush money.
But the race became tougher in mid-October with allegations that Mahoney had an affair with one of his aides and paid her thousands of dollars in hush money.
There are serious corruption issues that need to be settled: Filegate, Travelgate, hush money, illegal foreign campaign cash, misuse of the FBI and the Secret Service, not to mention employing the IRS to harass opponents.
The current senior management of NI are having to admit to post-crime "errors of judgement" revolving around their attempts to pay hush-money to the perpetrators and failure to investigate.
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