I don't know about money, but I did have an experience where it felt like an admin was "protecting" a particularly usual / abusive sub level moderator who seemed to frankly have some serious mental health issues. They'd rant about people stalking them IRL because of their status as a moderator. At first they were just strange questionable stories but later it escalated. Some of their stories sounded like they'd assume anything as being stalked IRL. It got to the point where their stories involved them making vague references to threats to other users. The community was at a loss as far as what to do and no amount of contacting the admins seemed to illicit help, response was always seemingly from the same admin who seemed to sidestep all the worst behaviors.
Then somehow some other admin noticed and cleaned it all up... just all perfunctory like that.