hush money
noun
: money paid so that someone will keep information secret : money that a person pays someone to hush something up
He's accused of paying her hush money to keep their affair secret.
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Trump's case against the firm pointed to its employment of Mark Pomerantz, who was previously involved in parts of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's investigation into hush money payments allegedly made to adult film actor Stormy Daniels.
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Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
Trump has embarked on a months-long effort to try to move to federal court his criminal prosecution for illegally concealing a 2016 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, a process known as removal.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 26 Mar. 2025
Sassoon and other prosecutors in New York and D.C. resigned on principle rather than go along with the corrupt plot orchestrated by Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, Trump’s former personal criminal defense lawyer in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2025
The petition referred to the guilty verdict in the May 2024 New York trial into whether Trump falsified business records related to a hush money payment allegedly made to adult film actor Stephanie Clifford, better known by her stage name Stormy Daniels, ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
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Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
Trump has embarked on a months-long effort to try to move to federal court his criminal prosecution for illegally concealing a 2016 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels, a process known as removal.
—Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 26 Mar. 2025
Sassoon and other prosecutors in New York and D.C. resigned on principle rather than go along with the corrupt plot orchestrated by Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove, Trump’s former personal criminal defense lawyer in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
—New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 26 Mar. 2025
The petition referred to the guilty verdict in the May 2024 New York trial into whether Trump falsified business records related to a hush money payment allegedly made to adult film actor Stephanie Clifford, better known by her stage name Stormy Daniels, ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Hush money.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hush%20money. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.
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