regretted everything

Including paying prostitutes with checks. The bank was not amused.

• From The Vault: Jerry Springer paid checks for sex

Twenty-four hours later, the 30-year-old Springer was testifying at the trial of three men accused of operating the Northern Kentucky “health club” where he admitted going twice for sex – once the previous December, once in January. On the stand, he identified a $50 check he made out to 26-year-old Norma Jean Hall.

“It was in exchange for an act of prostitution,” Springer said.

Or they might just have the local police bomb and incenerate an entire city block like in Philly.

The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, was the aerial bombing and destruction of residential homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by the Philadelphia Police Department during an armed standoff with MOVE, a black liberation organization.

*Edit: typo

It took me too long to figure out that you meant to say “protect” instead of “pretext”.