Fixers Launder Elite Sexual Scandals

Wealthy people routinely hire intermediaries who package hush payments, craft legal cover stories, and coordinate intimidation or surveillance to keep sexual misconduct out of public view. Those intermediaries use financial, legal and social tools (gifts, tax categorization, introductions, surveillance) to transform misconduct into routinized private transactions. — Recognizing this role focuses public scrutiny on the intermediaries, tax/accounting classifications, and institutional failures that enable elite impunity rather than only on the principals themselves.