Conservatives Who Paid to Resolve Lawsuits

Displaying 26 Scandals
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Tucker Carlson [Fox News Host]Baselessly accused a Trump supporter on the Capitol grounds during 1/6 of being a covert government agent who was "the central figure" in inciting the insurrection which led to him receiving numerous death threats and being forced to sell his home and business and relocate to a secluded place to protect himself and his wife
12 Jul 2023
According to a lawsuit filed by the alleged victim
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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
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Tim Sheehy [2023 MT GOP Sen. Candidate]Copiloted a small airplane that crashed into a residential home after losing power midair due to "carelessly and negligently flying" killing a second pilot and pinning a teenage girl against a wall
16 Jun 2023
According to a civil lawsuit filed by the victim's family
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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
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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
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Project VeritasWas found liable for $120k for violating wiretapping laws after illegally recording multiple conversations inside a Democratic political consulting group which they later "heavily edited" to deceitfully insinuate the group was involved in unscrupulous activities
23 Sep 2022
According to a civil lawsuit filed by the firm Democracy Partners
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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
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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
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Americans for Prosperity President Tim PhillipsSettled 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
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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
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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
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Was found liable to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $5 million in damages for defamation and battery for "sexual abuse" at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York City in 1996
04 Nov 2019
According to a civil lawsuit filed in New York
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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
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RNC Exec Elliott BroidySecretly 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
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Steve WynnCoerced 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
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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
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James Rosen [Reporter]Sexually harassed a female producer then secretly worked with Fox News to privately settle her complaint with a deal that allowed her to extend her stay in the U.S. since she wasn't an American citizen
10 Jan 2018
According to interviews with former colleagues at Fox News and reported by NPR
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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
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Iowa Senate RepublicansWere ordered to pay $2.2 million to a sexual harassment victim who was fired a mere seven hours after she filed a memo that accused the group of turning a blind eye to a "boys club" culture in the statehouse
18 Jul 2017
According to a jury verdict reached in a sexual harassment suit filed against them
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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
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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
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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'KeefePaid $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
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Minnesota Senate GOPWas 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
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Project Veritas Founder James O'KeefePaid 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
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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