I suppose it's within the realm of possibility that he could make the payment privately, deny that he ever did so, and then take the position that no one was ev

I suppose it's within the realm of possibility that he could make the payment privately, deny that he ever did so, and then take the position that no one was ever in possession of the documents and the whole thing was just a scam and the documents were never released because no one ever had them. It's plenty likely that the whole thing IS just a scam and they don't actually have the documents.