What if we haven't heard of this group over the past couple years because their "victims" were paying the money to keep them quiet?
And now they are going to release it all anyway? What would the victims say? Hey you can't do that we had a deal to cover up my awful crimes. They would out themselves.
Hell this group could be Q. White hats Guccifer 2. Also would make sense why the whitehouse couldn't directly confirm Q…