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?
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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 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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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.
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.
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