[Ads-l] "papering" = "leaving a paper trail"

[Nancy Friedman]

Kimberly Guilfoyle, current ambassador to Greece and former girlfriend of
Donald Trump Jr., to Republican donor Eric Deters:

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/guilfoyle-amex-donor-100-000-0e02cdc3
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/stop-papering-things-corruption-in

Money quote (literally):

"Eric, I really wish you would stop papering all these things. It's really
dangerous and not helpful to you or me while you could simply just call me
on signal."

Here's a 2013 example:
https://www.td.org/content/atd-blog/new-case-shows-legal-risks-of-papering-fired-employees-file


Undated:
https://www.casebook.net/blog/papering-your-way-to-housing/

Undated, on a Texas law firm's website:
https://www.texasdiscriminationattorney.com/employer-building-false-paper-trail-texas-retaliation/
Courts call this “pretext” — a false reason offered to disguise the real,
illegal motivation. Employees and their attorneys call it “papering the
file.”

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