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hush money

noun as in bribe

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Over the years, the women received hush money payouts from the network or Bill O’Reilly totaling $13 million, about half of what the network paid their abuser a few weeks before his 2017 vacation.

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She alleges that he pressured her to drink while underage and gave her massages, and that Nickelodeon offered her hush money to not talk about her experiences.

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His brief appearance drew more people than the number that attended the public gallery in the same courtroom last year for President Donald Trump’s hush money trial.

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Bove represented Trump last year in his New York trial over hush money payments, and he was named acting deputy attorney general when Trump was sworn in.

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Trump was found guilty of falsifying records to disguise reimbursements for a $130,000 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels as legal expenses in 2016.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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