Money. These people are fixing to lose to much, they'll pay their way out any way they can while they still can.
There is another angle though - may be RH or some higher power is threatening to sue Google if they didn't help cleanup based on their own terms, which might have clause of active sabotage - I am sure they claim this is one such event.
RH didn't pay anything. Google knows what to do. The interests are way deeper than some pocket change moving around...