I the amount and recipients of THESE bonuses are public information, then it is necessary to look at all past bonuses.
To determine if these bonuses ARE hush money, we need to know how often, why, to whom and how much in bonuses have been given, previously.
THAT should say it all!
Of course it is! This government has become nothing less than a mafia. An election was stolen in 2012!!!!!!!!! And not one word from our idiotic leaders on that angle. This election result was illegitimate. How anyone cannot see that is simply astonishing.