To be a Fixer, you need the temperament of a bomb disposal expert: cold, detached, and hyper-logical. You need a law degree or an accounting background (to know where the bodies are buried) and the social charm of a diplomat (to convince a victim to sign the waiver).
(1952–2021) was a private investigator who fixed for the powerful—including Bill Clinton during the Paula Jones allegations. Palladino’s method: photograph witnesses, dig up their pasts, and let them know that if they testified against his client, their own secrets would become public. He was not a villain, in his own telling; he was an equalizer. The powerful hire Fixers because the weak have nothing to lose. The Fixer