Linda Tripp to collect bonanza from Pentagon: $595,000 payoff for Clinton tapes By Patrick Martin 5 November 2003 Back to screen version | Send this link by email | Email the author The former White House aide who played a critical role in the right-wing campaign to destabilize the Clinton administration, Linda Tripp, will collect a substantial payoff from the Bush administration, her lawyers announced November 3. Tripp will receive a one-time payment of $595,000 from the Department of Defense, as well as a retroactive pay increase for 1998, 1999 and 2000, in returning for dropping two lawsuits against the...