[Cacophonous]

The stories said he payed off the housekeeper. That's bribery at the least. He also became paranoid and asked her to destroy the computer that contained the e-mails. A vindictive prosecutor could try to make that into a case of extortion. It probably wouldn't fly, but it would cause trouble.

[j.cam]

You say: “The stories said he payed off the housekeeper. That's bribery at the least.”

No. That is not bribery. That makes her an accomplice. Look up the word "bribery." According to you, hit men are victims of bribery because people pay them to kill people. Drug dealers too. In fact, any hired criminal is a victim of bribery. “Bribery”??? Are doctors who write fake prescriptions because people pay them victims of bribery? Are you a liberal shill?

You say, “He also became paranoid and asked her to destroy the computer that contained the e-mails. A vindictive prosecutor could try to make that into a case of extortion."

How? There is no extortion there. Look up the word “extortion.” And I'd hardly call it paranoid to destroy computers with that kind of information on it (if your story is true). Look up the word "paranoid."

You say, “It probably wouldn't fly, but it would cause trouble.”

So now you are saying that no one made those allegations yet, but someone might wrongly make them. LOL. Why, then, did you say: "Some of the allegations, however, involved bribery, blackmail, threats and/or extortion." ?

And what about your claim that there are allegations of threats and blackmail? Did you make that up too, or did some poster on a liberal site you frequent make that charge?

[Montfort]

"The stories said he payed off the housekeeper. That's bribery at the least."

Bribery????? Bribery involves paying PUBLIC OFFICIALS to get some result. The maid is not a public official.

Paying off a private individual not to "expose" you often falls under the heading "blackmail" and the person paying is generally considered the victim of the crime of blackmail.