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influence peddling

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influence peddling
n.
The practice of using one's influence with persons in authority to obtain favors or preferential treatment for another, usually in return for payment.
influence peddler n.


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Prosecutors argued in court papers that the massages were part of a pattern of influence peddling in 2002 and 2003, when Edwards was working with Wong to encourage Evergreen's EVA Air to move cargo operations to Ontario Airport.
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Reformers believe our democracy is vastly improved by the banishment of what had, by any reasonable reckoning, become a form of legalized influence peddling.
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Kennedy, traded accusations about influence peddling and Communist subversion with military brass.
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