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Former NBC employee claims to have paid off women for Cosby

Former NBC employee Frank Scotti told the New York Daily News that he acted as Bill Cosby’s “fixer,” paying off women.

Former NBC employee Frank Scotti told the New York Daily News that he acted as Bill Cosby's "fixer," paying off women.

Scotti, now 90, recalled various instances in which Cosby would give him cash and instruct him to distribute it to as many as eight women via money order. "He had everybody fooled," Scotti said. "Nobody suspected." The NBC veteran even kept copies of the money orders from the pay-off era, between 1984 and 1992.

Some of the women Cosby allegedy sent money via Scotti include Shawn Thompson, whose daughter Autumn Jackson said Cosby fathered her and tried to extort money from the television star and Angela Leslie. Leslie, now 52, said Cosby ran her out of the room when they met in Las Vegas after she refused to sleep with him. "I felt so used," she told the New York Daily News.

Scotti's other Cosby cover-up tasks included finding an apartment for a model and standing watch outside the door of a modeling agency.

Scotti, who met Cosby while working as a facilities manager at the Brooklyn set on which "The Cosby Show" was filmed, said he left his job because of Cosby's behavior.

"I used to like him," he said, "but that's the reason I quit him after so many years—because of the girls."

[New York Daily News]