Sentences with phrase «to buy one's silence»

Federal prosecutors in New York are investigating Cohen's business practices, including whether there were any crimes committed as part of a possible pattern or strategy in 2016 of buying the silence of people who could have damaged Trump's candidacy, according to people familiar with the probe.

Some bishops and those advising them, like many in the secular world, sought to deny the problem; a few with a twisted logic sought to protect the good name of the Church by buying the silence of victims.

He claims he drew on a home - equity loan to pay $ 130,000 to Stormy Daniels, a porn actress who said she had sex with Trump in 2006, to buy her silence in the run - up to the 2016 election.

After remaining exceedingly tight - lipped about allegations that he had an affair with the porn actress Stormy Daniels and later bought her silence...

In November, Lisa Marie Cater, a former state employee, filed a lawsuit against Sam Hoyt, a former Cuomo appointee and former Democratic assemblyman from Buffalo, accusing him of paying $ 50,000 to buy her silence after he sexually harassed her.

Cohen has been linked to hush - money payoffs to porn star Stormy Daniels and another woman to buy their silence relating to alleged affairs with Trump.

Support Does Not Buy Silence — English art critic Jonathan Jones proposes that contemporary art is more publicly visible in Britain than it was 30 years ago thanks to governmental efforts, but then curiously postulates that any artistic denouncement of the administration's policies — such as Jeremy Deller's contentious booth at this year's Venice Biennale — is thereby hypocritical.

One, because the mainstream media isn't doing their job; and two, the politicians have basically bought the silence of the majority of climate scientists - one can't bite Uncle Sugar Daddy's hand and expect to prosper.

Or they may try to buy your silence with low dollar amounts; money that may seem like a lot but is in fact a pittance given all that you have been through.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who joined President Donald Trump's legal team last month, said on Wednesday that Trump repaid the $ 130,000 his lawyer gave to an adult - film star to buy her silence about an alleged affair with the president.

Silver weathered scandals in recent years when he repeatedly used state funds to buy the silence of women who made sexual harassment and assault claims against Assembly leaders, and virtually no one in his Democratic conference, including its many champions of feminist causes, would publicly fault him.

And that Mr. Trump himself had financed the $ 130,000 payment intended to buy the silence of the actress known as Stormy Daniels.

WASHINGTON Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who joined President Donald Trump's legal team last month, said on Wednesday that Trump repaid the $ 130,000 his lawyer gave to an adult - film star to buy her silence about an alleged affair with the president.

Ms. Clifford has said she was paid before the 2016 election to buy her silence.

But in her suit, Ms. Clifford tries to implicate Mr. Trump in the transaction, saying the offer of money was intended to buy her silence to help «ensure he won the presidential election.»

And that Mr. Trump himself financed the $ 130,000 payment intended to buy the silence of the actress known as Stormy Daniels.

Trump last month denied any knowledge of that payment, which Daniels says was intended to buy her silence about her claimed affair with Trump in 2006.

Buying Silence: The story of a $ 30,000 payoff to a former Trump Tower doorman illustrates a larger pattern: American Media, Inc., National Inquirer's publisher, repeatedly bought and quashed stories potentially damaging to Trump during his presidential campaign.

Prosecutors are examining whether crimes were committed as part of any pattern or strategy of trying to buy the silence of people who could offer accounts that could have damaged Trump's candidacy in 2016.

Cohen has now admitted to being the «John Doe» named in our complaints who paid off Daniels, apparently to buy her silence, at a time when she was reportedly negotiating with major media outlets to discuss the potentially damaging details of a relationship she carried on with Trump.

After an FBI raid on Cohen's office and home, Giuliani also indicated that he wanted to change the discussion surrounding the $ 130,000 payment that Cohen made to porn actress Stormy Daniels to buy her silence about a sexual tryst with Trump.

The only way in which Cohen could have paid the $ 130,000 without having violated campaign finance laws is if he were totally independent of the Trump campaign and, as a private individual, decided to give Daniels the money to buy her silence.

He also has on - the - record quotes from former AMI employees talking about how the company would purchase stories in order to kill them and buy the silence of the person behind them — a practice known as «catch and kill» — or to use as leverage against celebrities.

The campaign finance watchdog group Common Cause has argued that the hush money payment was made in service of Trump's presidential campaign because it bought silence on a controversy that could have hurt his prospects.

It's not just about the divorce, it's also about the domestic violence, spiritual and psychological abuse, withholding child support to buy silence, SLAPPs, about how he convinced his prominent friends to lie for him.

In the recording, Temer allegedly agrees to buy the silence of Eduardo Cunha, the powerful former speaker of House — now under arrest on corruption charges — who is widely believed to possess incriminating information on much of the political elite.

Vito Lopez's victims initially demanded $ 1.2 million from the Assembly to buy their silence — even though one of the two women was never groped or harassed by him, sources and documents say.

James Murdoch said he was shocked and surprised to learn the payments were continuing, and denied it had been done to buy silence.

James Murdoch denied the large out - of - court settlements to the PFA chief executive, Gordon Taylor (# 700,000), and publicist Max Clifford (# 1m including legal costs), authorised by him in 2008, had not been pitched so high to buy their silence.

After he quit unexpectedly last month, a woman told The Buffalo News, on the condition of anonymity, that Mr. Hoyt had paid $ 50,000 to buy her silence.

In four distinct cases, Silver cut deals to spend hundreds of thousands in taxpayer cash to buy the silence of his colleagues» victims.

«Silent Schneiderman approved the use of state taxpayer dollars to buy the silence of Mr. Lopez's victims.

That his real game is to force them to buy his silence - by bringing him back to the Whips Office as Pairing Whip.

In the case of Vito Lopez, this took the form of payoffs approved by the speaker — using your tax dollars — to buy the silence of women who had accused Lopez of sexual harassment.

Despite months of denials, President Trump this week admitted that he was aware of a $ 130,000 payment made by his personal lawyer Michael Cohen to the porn star as part of a nondisclosure agreement to buy her silence about the tryst.

As we now know, that came in large amounts and undoubtedly cemented people to the group and bought silence.

Also, Triton attempted to pay tenants hush money to buy their silence about the explosion.

Elizabeth Grace tells the CBC's Go Public that Public employers should steer clear of «gag orders», after a B.C. woman accused Correctional Service Canada (CSC) of trying to buy her silence.

Federal prosecutors are investigating Mr. Cohen's business dealings, including a $ 130,000 payment he made to the adult film actress Stephanie Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels, to buy her silence about an affair she says she had with Mr. Trump.