{"id":4956,"date":"2005-08-12T11:20:23","date_gmt":"2005-08-12T15:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=4956"},"modified":"2005-08-12T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2005-08-12T15:20:23","slug":"whats-the-austrian-word-for-hush-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/whats-the-austrian-word-for-hush-money\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s the Austrian word for ‘hush money’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been weeks<\/em> since we last heard about a scandal regarding Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), so I guess we were due. The one that ran on the front page of today’s LA Times, like so many of the others, paints a pretty disturbing picture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Days after Arnold Schwarzenegger jumped into the race for governor and girded for questions about his past, a tabloid publisher wooing him for a business deal promised to pay a woman $20,000 to sign a confidentiality agreement about an alleged affair with the candidate.<\/p>\n

American Media Inc., which publishes the National Enquirer, signed a friend of the woman to a similar contract about the alleged relationship for $1,000.<\/p>\n

American Media’s contract with Gigi Goyette of Malibu is dated Aug. 8, 2003, two days after Schwarzenegger announced his candidacy on a late-night talk show. Under the agreement, Goyette must disclose to no one but American Media any information about her “interactions” with Schwarzenegger.<\/p>\n

American Media never solicited further information from Goyette or her friend, Judy Mora, also of Malibu, both women said. The Enquirer had published a cover story two years earlier describing an alleged seven-year sexual relationship between Goyette and Schwarzenegger during his marriage to Maria Shriver, California’s first lady.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

American Media loves running stories about a star and an adulterous affair and did so when it first learned of Schwarzenegger’s relationship with Goyette. When Schwarzenegger began a candidate for governor, and news outlets started learning about Schwarzenegger’s voracious appetites, it seemed like a prime time for American Media to revisit the story it helped break.<\/p>\n

Instead, American Media’s publisher, a Schwarzenegger ally, paid the accuser and her friend, and kept the story quiet. Shortly thereafter, American Media put out a 120-page magazine celebrating Schwarzenegger as an embodiment of the “American dream.” And then, just two days before he was sworn into office, Schwarzenegger and American Media struck a lucrative business arrangement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, how will Schwarzenegger’s career formally end? Does he announce that he’s not running for re-election, or does he get beat in a GOP primary next year?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been weeks since we last heard about a scandal regarding Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R), so I guess we were due. The one that ran on the front page of today’s LA Times, like so many of the others, paints a pretty disturbing picture. Days after Arnold Schwarzenegger jumped into the race for governor and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}