money-grubbing

“Team Trump spent much of the day trying to paint Daniels as a sleazy, money-grubbing liar, which, if that is true, you can see why they hit it off.”

Because these suits can be so effective, the corporate lobby, aided by large law firms and often Republican lawmakers, has tried to frame consumer class actions as frivolous money-grubbing scams.

As Mencken observes, the character, “full of highfalutin fraud and bombast,” attempts “to make the world believe, and even to convince himself, that his trivial and sordid money-grubbing is all altruistic.”

This one concerns a set of statements he made in 2019 accusing Carroll of being a liar and a money-grubbing left-wing operative who was not his “type.”

But the light that she turns on Pinochet and his money-grubbing, self-justifying descendants is not merely investigative in nature.