While allies of sexual harasser and conservative hypocrite Matt Schlapp claim neither he nor his organization paid to dismiss the lawsuit against him, Carlton Huffman, the accuser, received a $480,000 payout from the organization’s insurance company, CNN reports.
“From the beginning, I asserted my innocence,” Schlapp said in a statement released on Tuesday without mentioning the payout. “Our family was attacked, especially by a left-wing media that is focused on the destruction of conservatives regardless of the truth and the facts.”
Oddly, Schlapp’s lawyers also released a statement from Huffman after the suit was dropped, and it should be read in a very different light given the careful wording: “The claims made in my lawsuits were the result of a complete misunderstanding, and I regret that the lawsuit caused pain to the Schlapp family. Neither the Schlapps nor the ACU paid me anything to dismiss my claims against them.”