Volleys of downward punches, denials, and distractions had helped Trump quash scandals in the past, including a similar adult model payoff reported in the Journal just before the 2016 election and about two dozen allegations of sexual misconduct, often at the expense of the reputations of the women involved.
Some Chinese reporters take payoffs not to report on deadly coal mine accidents, and the rule there is that the bigger the news outlet, the bigger the pay-out.
Rogers is rumored to be negotiating a secret payoff from Woods, following reports that she hired power lawyer Gloria Allred, who also represents alleged Tiger mistress Rachel Uchitel (PHOTOS).
There has long been an assumption, that all this waiting will lead to a payoff: A full, public report, written by Mueller, that would detail everything that he found — a "Mueller report". That assumption may have been wrong.
He was also asked about his reported £1.3m payoff from News International (now News UK) when he resigned as editor of the Times in December.
Another former senior BBC executive, Roly Keating, took the unprecedented step of returning his £375,000 payoff after the NAO report branded the decision to award it "seriously deficient".
Tony Hall, the BBC director general, who has pledged to put a cap on controversial redundancy payoffs, said: "Both these reports underline what we already knew – approvals, record keeping and oversight were poor.
While the current focus of the New York investigation is on bid-rigging and price-fixing among commercial insurance brokers and insurance companies, investigators say Mr. Spitzer is also pursuing reports of payoffs that may increase coverage costs for tens of millions of individuals.
The last we heard from Villalonga who received a reported $24 million payoff when he left the telco last year he was scraping together a consortium to launch a counter-bid for Portugal Telecom.
The exact process taken to report the payoff and clear the car title of a lien will vary, based on the laws and regulations that apply in that jurisdiction.
