$8 million
Amount Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX) received as a payout to leave the conservative Tea Party group, FreedomWorks, “because of an internal split over the group’s future direction,” the AP reports. A confidential contract shows that Armey agreed in September to resign from his role as chairman of FreedomWorks in exchange for $8 million in consulting fees paid in annual $400,000 installments.
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