Bill Gertz, who was fired from the Washington Free Beacon late last year, acknowledged the payment in newly unsealed court filings.A conservative journalist admitted to taking a $100,000 payment from a businessperson connected to a controversial Chinese billionaire, according to newly unsealed court filings.The journalist, Bill Gertz, for what the publication called an “undisclosed financial transaction” with someone he covered.The disclosure sheds light on the journalist’s mysterious firing last fall and offers a window into that billionaire’s connections to influential China hawks.In a...…Bill Gertz, who was fired from the Washington Free Beacon late last year, acknowledged the payment in newly unsealed court filings.A conservative journalist admitted to taking a $100,000 payment from a businessperson connected to a controversial Chinese billionaire, according to newly unsealed court filings.The journalist, Bill Gertz, for what the publication called an “undisclosed financial transaction” with someone he covered.The disclosure sheds light on the journalist’s mysterious firing last fall and offers a window into that billionaire’s connections to influential China hawks.In a...WW…