testimony payments

Regularly-doled-out amounts of cash paid to someone as reimbursement for his "cooperative" court-related actions, either for his providing false/exaggerated trial-statements to make the cases run in favor of the "benefactor", or as "hush money" to KEEP the person FROM testifying AGAINST his "benefactor".

A couple months ago I was a witness to a shoplifting where the police were called, so I secretly spoke with the thieves and offered to keep quiet about what I'd seen if they would each slip me fifty bucks a month for the next three years. They willingly agreed, but as of now I have yet to receive one red cent of my promised testimony payments.