When conservative icon Matt Schlapp announced Tuesday that the sexual battery and defamation lawsuit against him had been dropped‚ he and his allies were quick to note that the ordeal ended without him or the American Conservative Union—the right-wing organization he runs—paying his accuser a single dollar. But what Schlapp didn’t disclose was that the Republican operative who sued him was‚ in fact‚ paid to drop the lawsuit‚ according to two people with knowledge of the payout. It was just...