Monday, February 27, 2012

Media Matters’ Brock paid former partner $850k in ‘blackmail’ settlement

By Vince Coglianese

David Brock, fearful that damaging information about Media Matters For America would be released, reportedly paid his former domestic partner $850,000 to stay quiet, according to a Fox News report Monday. Brock later characterized the arrangement as “blackmail.”

Brock is the founder of Media Matters, a liberal messaging organization that was the subject of a recent Daily Caller series.

A police report obtained by Fox News shows that Brock contacted the Washington, D.C. Metro Police Department in September 2010 after his longtime domestic partner William Grey allegedly threatened to release “derogatory information about him and his organization to the press and donors that would be embarrassing to him and cause harm to the organization if he did not comply [with Grey's demands].”

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