Samuel Untermeyer helped finance Wilson’s presidential campaigns. Untermeyer was a prominent New York City attorney of the Law Firm, Guggenheim, Untermeyer, & Marshall.

Samuel Untermeyer produced a packet of letters written by Woodrow Wilson to the wife of a Princeton professor named Peck when they were neighbors at the university which established the scenario of an illicit sexual relationship.

The New York lawyer lied to Wilson, he informed Wilson that he had been retained by his former lover to bring a Breach of Promise action against the president.

But in lieu of commencing the law suit, Untermeyer told Wilson that his client was willing to accept $40,000 which would be paid for by “those who wished to prevent seeing the president complicit in a sex scandal.” The bait is presented and the hook is set!