https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2018/05/31/glenn-thrush-was-dropped-from-book-deal-after-misconduct-allegations-but-gets-to-keep-advance/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1577f4ce1577

Glenn Thrush was riding high last summer. The New York Times’s White House reporter scored many insider scoops about President Trump’s White House and was so distinctive (goatee, glasses, fedora) that “Saturday Night Live” parodied him in its Sean Spicer sketches. Better yet, Random House signed Thrush and his Times colleague Maggie Haberman to a fat book contract, reportedly with a six-figure advance for each.

And that big advance? Thrush has kept it.

Under terms of the contract with Haberman and Thrush, Random House’s unilateral decision to deep-six Thrush meant he was free to keep the cash he had received for agreeing to write the book.

It pays to be a top level Shill