He says Democrats couldn't get any traction when the issue was just influence peddling and bribery.
In the political realm campaign contributions and all sorts of influence peddling are commonplace.
Current Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, a Democrat who succeeded Hevesi, has instituted several policies in the office to avoid influence peddling.
Lott and other Republicans took issue with the suggestion that the Enron debacle is an example of influence peddling within Washington.
But if a fix for Boeing is all they want, why not just no-bid the contract and spare us the influence peddling?
This is typically done through high-level bribery, lobbying or influence peddling.
As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially.
But, while that may be like shooting an elephant with a BB-gun, the Mayor is taking a shotgun to a far more egregious and insidious influence peddling tactic.
The officials are accused of influence peddling, fraud and corruption.
When Thompson warned of Chinese influence peddling, his counterpart, ranking Democrat John Glenn, raked over former Republican Party chief Haley Barbour for funneling foreign money through his National Policy Forum.
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 allegations stemming from the 1992 presidential election, together with the ongoing trial of his son and personal adviser Kim Hyun Chul for influence peddling, have severely weakened Kim's position.
That is, in the former case elected officials serving on public fund boards may accept bribes and in the latter, public pension investment decision-making may be tainted by political influence peddling.
Last month, Venezuelan authorities charged Leopoldo Lopez, a prominent opposition figure once considered a serious challenger for the presidency, with influence peddling in connection with alleged misdeeds that date back 15 years.
Never mind that, in 40 years of business in Mexico, Slim isn't known ever to have been formally investigated, indicted, convicted or otherwise sullied in regard to bribery, influence peddling or any other scandal.
Having earned high praise for avoiding the financial whirlwind which tore through the region devastating many economies two years ago, Taiwan now risks incubating the kind of crony capitalism, influence peddling and misdirected financing that laid low its neighbours.
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.
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.
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