"I find it troubling that they cut a deal with a celebrity, including making payoffs to women he knew, and no one bats an eye."

Eighty bus companies were investigated and 41 people at 55 of them were found to have made payoffs, she said.

More than 20 contractors are suspected of making payoffs, officials said.

Law-enforcement officials declined to identify any restaurant that was said to have made payoffs.

If I get myself gummed up with making payoffs, it stops being fun and there's not as much money.

And I think he was using the money to make payoffs.

Hundreds of restaurants throughout the city had been threatened with health violations unless they made payoffs ranging from $25 to $5,000.

They seemed to show Hamilton abusing the public trust by secretly making payoffs.

"Were you making payoffs in connection with Arista's work?"

If indeed the Democrats made payoffs to buy votes for their candidate, that's plainly wrong.