influence peddlers

Harlan Crow is his friend, Leonard Leo is his friend, all these influence peddlers and purchasers of Supreme Court justices are really just friends.

And the only time influence peddlers can be tagged for anything is if there’s a big money bag and a note that says “do this for me” and it’s done.

Faceless influence peddlers plotting behind the scenes offer a sardonic warning sign of the perils Petrovych will face in office, especially when they discover, over caviar and Champagne, that the lowly schoolteacher’s election wasn’t bought.

Lopez Obrador said he regretted the deaths and that there would be no impunity in their cases, though he later lashed out at "mercenary" journalists whom he said were funded by "influence peddlers" and the United States to attack him.

Many corporate influence peddlers have settled into jobs in upper reaches of the executive branch.