Conservatives Forced to Settle Lawsuits

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Displaying 20 Scandals
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  • Agreed to pay former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg $12 million to settle a lawsuit she filed against them which accused the network of pressuring her to commit perjury in a legal deposition and operating a hostile and discriminatory work environment
    30 Jun 2023
    According to court records first reported by The New York Times
  • Settled a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million for spreading false 2020 election conspiracy theories about their voting machines which caused significant defamatory damage to their company brand
    18 Apr 2023
    According to court records and public reporting by mainstream outlets
  • TX Attorney General Ken Paxton [R]
    Retaliated against four staffers who reported his alleged corruption to the FBI by maligning them as "rogue employees" and fired or forced them out through other means then spent $3.3 million in taxpayer dollars to settle a wrongful termination lawsuit that also forced him to apologize for disparaging them
    10 Feb 2023
    According to a settlement agreement reached between Paxton and the fired staffers
  • Rep. Van Taylor [R-TX]
    Engaged in a yearlong extramarital affair with a woman who was formerly married to an ISIS terrorist and paid her $5,000 to keep quiet about it
    02 Mar 2022
    According to a statement in which he admitted to the affair and announced he was ending his reelection campaign
  • Vince McMahon [Conservative Businessman]
    Had an affair with a WWE employee 35 years younger than him, then doubled her salary to $200k and later paid her $3 million to keep it secret
    15 Jan 2022
    According to an investigative report by The Wall Street Journal
  • Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips
    Settled a workplace discrimination lawsuit for an undisclosed amount with a woman who was skipped over for a promotion as a hiring manager for a less experienced and qualified man who then promptly used his newly gotten authority to fire her
    03 Dec 2021
    According to an exclusive report by CNBC News
  • Bill O'Reilly [Host]
    Routinely accosted Fox News producer Andrea Mackris with graphic sexual conversations he initiated during all hours of the night and during work functions, unsuccessfully solicited her and a friend of hers to have group sex, and tried to persuade her to have phone sex with him all after totally ignoring her repeated demands that he stop -- all while he was married -- of which he eventually paid her $9 million to resolve a sexual harassment lawsuit she brought against him
    13 Jul 2021
    According to a settlement agreement reached between O'Reilly and his accuser
  • Kimberly Guilfoyle [Fox News Host]
    Sexually harassed an assistant of hers so incessantly that she eventually filed a 42-page complaint against Fox News which resulted in them paying her a secret multimillion-dollar settlement
    01 Oct 2020
    According to an exclusive report by The New Yorker
  • State Rep. Jeff Hoover [R-KY]
    Sexually assaulted his 21-year-old legislative staffer more than 50 times over a three-year period by subjecting her to what she testified as "nearly daily touching" in places including his office, the elevator, hallway, and elsewhere in addition to the multiple times he massaged between her legs while seated next to her at large political functions then secretly settled a lawsuit she filed against him in order to prevent her allegations from becoming public while being married the entire time
    16 Jan 2019
    According to court records first reported by Louisville Public Media
  • RNC Exec Elliott Broidy
    Secretly paid Playboy model Shera Bechard $1.6 million to keep their extramarital affair and details of his alleged abuse and manipulation secret with the help of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
    13 Apr 2018
    According to an investigative report by The Wall Street Journal
  • Steve Wynn
    Coerced a manicurist who worked at one of his hotels to remove her clothing and have sex with him while also being married then secretly paid her $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit she filed against him
    27 Jan 2018
    According to an exclusive report by The wall Street Journal
  • Rep. Pat Meehan [R-PA]
    Propositioned an aide who was decades younger than him to become romantically involved and then made her life in the office so miserable after she rebuffed his advances that she quit and sued him for sexual harassment, which resulted in him secretly using taxpayer funds to settle while also being married
    20 Jan 2018
    According to an exclusive report by The New York Times
  • Rep. Blake Farenthold [R-TX]
    Settled a sexual harassment lawsuit with a confidentiality agreement for $84,000 using a secret taxpayer funded account which kept it from the public for years
    04 Dec 2017
    According to an exclusive report by Politico
  • Bill O'Reilly [Host]
    Unsuccessfully pressured Fox News host Juliet Huddy to have sex with him multiple times -- once he insisted she come up to return something to his hotel room and answered the door only wearing his boxer shorts -- then had Fox News secretly pay her $1.6 million to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit she filed against him and the company
    10 Jan 2017
    According to a settlement agreement reached between O'Reilly and his accuser
  • State Rep. Dan Kirby [R-OK]
    Secretly paid $44,500 in taxpayer money to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by his former assistant that he fired after she complained about his behavior
    23 Dec 2016
    According to reports by local and state media
  • Roger Ailes [CEO]
    Solicited anchor Gretchen Carlson for sexual favors and then punished her professionally after she refused his advances in a manner so egregious Fox News settled a lawsuit she filed for $20 million dollars
    06 Jul 2016
    According to the details of a civil settlement and public apology Fox News gave Ms. Carlson
  • Project Veritas Founder James O'Keefe
    Paid $100k to settle a lawsuit brought by an employee of an NGO helping lower income families who he smeared as supporting criminal behavior through a deceptively edited secret recording leaving out the key fact he called the police on them immediately after
    08 Mar 2013
    According to the results of a civil lawsuit brought by the victim
  • Minnesota Senate GOP
    Was sued for illegally firing without cause a staffer who had an extramarital affair with the MN Senate GOP Leader and later agreed to pay $30,000 to settle the wrongful termination lawsuit he brought against the State Senate
    15 Mar 2012
    According to a civil lawsuit filed by the fired staffer
  • Project Veritas Founder James O'Keefe
    Paid a five-figure settlement to CNN correspondent Abbie Boudreau over a disgusting failed attempt to smear her reputation by recording her aboard a boat filled with inappropriate sexualized items including sex toys
    29 Sep 2010
    According to an exclusive repor by CNN
  • State Rep. Kevin Garn [R-UT]
    Got naked with a 15-year-old girl in a hot tub when he was in his late twenties and later paid her $150,000 to keep quiet when he ran for US Congress
    12 Mar 2010
    According to the woman who went to the media to tell her story and confirmed by Garn