Good grief. The man has a net worth of $30 million bucks. He could misplace a couple hundred thousand and not even miss it.
Seriously, why couledn't he just pay off his mistress, fork over whatever "hush money" was needed or what have you, with his own cash? Nothing illegal about that; immoral, certainly, but it doesn't get you sent to prison, fer-cryin-out-loud.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Arrogant, nuts, and stupid.
I forget if it’s a Murphy’s, Parkinson’s, law, or corollary or what. But you know how clutter grows to fill the available space? It’s like that with dough. There’s no heap of it lying around with no place to go. If he had $30M, he spent $29.9M at least. At least.