Interesting that Brock identifies it as blackmail. Obviously he is admitting that there is something he did for which he can be blackmailed. Years back I read his book Blinded by the Right. I found him totally disgusting. This review on Amazon is a bit too kind but gives you and idea of what a total @#$% he is - He has been out as gay for some time, so this has to be something more.

David Brock made his name (and big money) by trashing Anita Hill as "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty." But it was Brock's reporting that was nutty and slutty, he confesses in the riveting memoir Blinded by the Right. He absolves Hill; claims he helped Clarence Thomas threaten another witness into backing down; portrays a ghastly right-wing Clinton-bashing conspiracy of hypocrites, zillionaires, and maniacs; and accuses himself of being "a witting cog in the Republican sleaze machine." Now Brock is sliming his former fellows--everyone from the lawyer who argued the Bush v. Gore case to gonzo pundits Ann Coulter and Laura Ingraham ("the only person I knew who didn't appear to own a book or regularly read a newspaper") to Matt Drudge and Tom Wolfe. Brock excoriates the gay hypocrites of the right wing, including himself, and tells how he cleverly spun his own outing. (He calls himself "the only openly gay conservative in the country," evidently forgetting about the far more open and famous Andrew Sullivan.)

If Brock says he was a liar for much of his life, how do we know he's not lying now? Blinded by the Right is less addicted to anonymous and third-hand sources than the madcap character assassinations that made him famous, and it is infinitely more plausible. But that doesn't make it necessarily true. (Anita Hill's lawyer has acidly observed that Brock confessed his Hill-related lies after seven years, when the statute of limitations prevents suing for slander.) Dumped by the right after he wrote a non-hatchet-job book on Hillary Clinton, Brock profits by running to the arms of the center and left. But that doesn't make this book untrue. All I can tell you is you'll have to read it and decide for yourself. And I'll bet you'll admit this mea-culpa memoir has the revolting, irresistible fascination of a bad car wreck. --Tim Appelo

Think it is interesting their house was demolished after the payment. Why would you completely demolish a house? Wipe it off the map?

It couldn't have been homosexuality per se because both Rehoboth Beach and Washington DC are homosexual strongholds. It had to be underage boys. And if murder of an underage boy took place I wouldnt be surprised. That house was demolished to destroy forensic evidence. The relationship between these guys and the person who bought the house from them and authorized the demolition needs scrutiny.

do people generally pay taxes on hush money?

I think Grey would not want to open a nasty can of worms that might expose Brock because let's face it, Grey is of the same ilk if he was "getting it on" with Brock. So both could point fingers.

Drama between queens...nothing more...

The Cabal can easily brownstone homosexuals.

I would like to see if the ex for a 10 year relationship looks just as much of a creep as Brock!

Blackmail for child rape or murder is my guess.

https://tweetsave.com/matheasysolns/status/875952064391651331 :

MathEasySolutions on Twitter: "hmmmm wonder what the blackmail was that caused David Brock to pay up $850K in hush money.... #Interesting t.co/iwy3ZEN5hN t.co/QHOrqyBfHL"

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