hush up

He added: "Unless the process is absolutely right, then there'll still be a lingering doubt that things have been hushed up or swept under a carpet."

In other words, money that a person pays someone to hush up something.

Additionally, he suggested that the Vatican is involved in the cover-up and that, oh, by the way, people have been murdered to keep all this hushed up.

Addiction and overdose fatalities are often still hushed up in Hattiesburg, Mr. Moore said.

One note suggests the first lady sought to reclaim diamond earrings given by the Czech Republic, but tried to keep it all hushed up.