Beckel has been pounding nails into his own coffin lately. He got caught hiring a prostitute who tried to blackmail him. She serviced Beckel, who bragged about his high-powered consulting business, and she decided to shake him down. She wanted $50,000 to keep quiet about a sex-for-hire arrangement with Beckel. He wanted the police to charge the prostitute for blackmail but keep his name out of it. But when his involvement in the case was publicized, he lost a lucrative consulting contract and a job as a paid commentator on CNN. Embarrassed and humiliated, he's threatening to sue the police for letting his name emerge in the case.
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