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https://www.nj.com/news/2022/03/nj-town-paid-400k-to-conceal-alleged-racist-slurs-by-mayor-police-chief.html

Two years ago, a whistleblower in Clark Township came forward with explosive allegations: Hed secretly recorded the mayor, the police chief, and a supervisor in internal affairs referring to Blacks with racial slurs.

Yet Clark officials hid those accusations by preemptively agreeing to pay $400,000 to the whistleblower and his attorney to avoid a lawsuit that would have thrust them into the public eye, an NJ Advance Media investigation has found. Under the settlement, the whistleblower, police Lt. Antonio Manata, turned the recordings over to the township. And Clark allowed him to remain on the payroll without working until he retired at the rank of captain last month with his full pension.

Rest of the article is paywalled, but I think you get the idea.