If You Want to Blackmail Someone or Payoff a Blackmailer. Use a Lawyer

Via Travis Holte who points to this: http://www.unz.com/isteve/paging-ron-unz/

This, btw, is a corollary to my rule that if you ever want to bribe a government official (for good reason) or do anything the government might later charge you for doing, stick a lawyer in the middle so that he can draw up the necessary legalese or advise you on how to  structure the transaction so that you are protected.

-RW.