Regarding the money managers themselves, kickbacks, campaign contributions and various other forms of influence-peddling are commonplace.
Most big media outlets have murky ownership, leaving their journalists vulnerable to outside pressure and influence-peddling.
It must now decide whether there is any merit to claims of influence-peddling against Mr Miquilena.
But where backers see public financing as a knife into influence-peddling and corruption, opponents see a tax.
And there are other unexplained threads connecting Muslim leaders who are under investigation to Norquist's influence-peddling operation.
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Weldon's re-election bid was hurt after federal agents searched his daughter's home as part of an influence-peddling investigation.
Business footholds can soon become political bridgeheads, which coupled with weak politics creates a vulnerability to Russian influence-peddling and mischief-making.
On Friday, police arrested six people for allegedly running the influence-peddling ring selling government permits to businesses in return for bribes.
British politics has already been tarnished by scandals over influence-peddling and expenses.
Europeans should have learned by now how endemic and corrosive corruption and influence-peddling are when extensive power is concentrated at the center.
On May 5th prosecutors filed yet more charges of bribe-taking and influence-peddling.
Newspaper revelations last month of his sudden enrichment from political consultancy while a federal congressman from 2006 to 2010 left him open to accusations of influence-peddling.
His reputation has been battered by a series of corruption scandals involving senior government officials and the conviction of two of his sons for influence-peddling and tax-evasion.
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When the LDP lost its majority there after the Recruit influence-peddling scandal of the late 1980s, that presaged the party's historic, though temporary, fall from power in 1993.
The lack of appropriate safeguards at the state pension led me to believe more secret payments might have been made to intermediaries for doing little more than influence-peddling.
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It may be better that big companies, which usually have good in-house intelligence and security services, should do their own snooping and influence-peddling and take the rap if caught.
The real question is not whether kids can excuse messy phone-hacking and influence-peddling accusations, but whether family responsibilities can be an excuse for shuffling business responsibilities, no matter how small.
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The fear that this complication helps the well-connected at the expense of ordinary folk is heightened by the current slew of campaign-finance scandals, which expose the corruption wrought by influence-peddling lobbyists.
Influence-peddling has a long and sordid history in Washington, and governments that use repressive methods at home yet want to remain on friendly terms with the U.S. typically have the biggest bankrolls.
Former Afghan officials say that the bribery and influence-peddling was at times florid and spectacular, with some of it unfolding in Dubai, the Vegas-like sheikhdom where many high Afghan officials maintain second homes.
But Republican challenger Bob Dole, who is trailing badly in pre-election polls and for whom no issue seems to be working, seized on the Riady revelations to blast foreign "influence-peddling" in the Clinton administration.
One reason they backed Mr Roh whose limited experience included a stint as fisheries minister and several failed campaigns for lower office was that they preferred his idealistic message to the cynicism and influence-peddling of mainstream politicians.
In November, financier Steven Rattner agreed as part of a settlement with the SEC over alleged influence-peddling at New York's flagship pension fund to not associate with any investment adviser or broker dealer for two years.
Mr Pascoal's gang has been tied to a group in the north-eastern state of Alagoas allegedly associated with Augusto Farias, a congressman whose murdered brother ran the influence-peddling ring that led to the impeachment of Fernando Collor as Brazil's president in 1993.
Most important of all, the institutions that are supposed to protect Brazil's forest the federal and state environmental agencies, national and local police forces and the judicial system are weak, poorly co-ordinated and prone to corruption and influence-peddling by illegal loggers and the farming lobby.
His strategy has always been to co-operate on the minor stuff, but deny charges that carry harsher sentences. (Each human-rights charge against him could jail him for 25 years.) The first case he faced on February 18th, for influence-peddling in favour of two relatives of his former lover, Jacqueline Beltran, is small beer compared with corrupting judges, running guns and ordering death-squad killings.
Startups like Quora and Klout have their own algorithms but you can bet that both major parties are investing in this new-age influence peddling (with Democrats way ahead so far).
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Corruption and influence peddling, political horse-trading, the cultivation of powerful interest groups, the seduction of the electorate - these and other tricks of politics now substitute for the simple appeal to justice and patriotism which moved millions before and soon after Independence.
This is typically done through high-level bribery, lobbying or influence peddling.
Since leaving public office in 1999 Mr. Gingrich has accumulated millions more by peddling his political influence with in-office Republicans, pushing for the destructive policy preferences of pharmaceutical firms, Wall Street banks, Freddie Mac, and the environmentalists.
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