Russia is another big player and we see that with the under-reported story of the influence peddler former Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
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Some viewed Nader as an influence peddler; others said that he had been intimately involved in high-stakes negotiations in the Middle East for decades.
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A former senator and Secretary of the Interior, Salazar was plucked by Clinton from the powerful Washington D.C. influence peddler WilmerHale to run her presidential transition team.
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We also know that George Nader, who once served as a key influence peddler on behalf of the UAE, is now a cooperating witness working with special counsel Mueller's investigation.
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Unnamed in the indictment, he is believed to be Paul Erickson, an N.R.A. member, longtime Republican fixer and influence peddler who formed a South Dakota company with Ms. Butina in 2016.
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There are Punjabi princesses in Jackie Onassis sunglasses, book club aunties in top-shelf homespun, parboiled-looking Englishmen, men of letters with Oxbridge accents and the occasional well-buffed South Delhi influence peddler.
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"Paul Manafort has, for decades, been the Washington lobbyist and influence peddler around the world for a lot of the most vicious dictators we've seen," said investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay Johnston.
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This claim was always hard to believe — after helping elect a president of the United States, would a veteran influence peddler like Paul Manafort really never even speak to anyone from that new president's administration?
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He is also closely linked to one of the most notorious figures in the ongoing Russia probe: Manafort, the global influence peddler and Trump 2100 presidential campaign chairman who has been charged in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
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Michael Cohen, the president's personal lawyer and longtime fixer, has recently become the most notorious influence peddler in America, but he is only one man in an army of shadow lobbyists whose power has been growing for years.
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In 2009, Gillespie created Ed Gillespie Strategies to become what's known in the trade as a shadow lobbyist — someone who is a strategist, a tactician and an influence peddler who capitalizes on lacunae in the law to avoid registering as a lobbyist while providing guidance to corporations and trade associations.
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On one side, Donald Trump's lawyer is under investigation by the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York; on another, his side gig as an influence peddler has been revealed; from yet another he's being sued by Stormy Daniels and her suddenly famous lawyer Michael Avenatti, who wants to void an agreement that prohibits Daniels from talking about an alleged affair with Trump.
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Y.) LEADING THE DAY INVESTIGATIONS: Paul ManafortPaul John ManafortTrial of ex-Obama White House counsel suddenly postponed Top Mueller probe prosecutor to join Georgetown Law as lecturer DOJ releases notes from official Bruce Ohr's Russia probe interviews MORE, Trump's campaign chairman and a veteran GOP influence peddler whose work in Ukraine and ties to well-connected Russians placed him under special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's microscope, was sentenced on Thursday to nearly four years in federal prison in the first of two financial fraud cases.
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The President of Taggart Transcontinental and the book's most important antagonist. Taggart is an expert influence peddler but incapable of making operational decisions on his own. He relies on his sister, Dagny Taggart, to actually run the railroad, but nonetheless opposes her in almost every endeavor because of his various anti-capitalist moral and political beliefs. In a sense, he is the antithesis of Dagny.
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Sweeney was part of a group of lawmakers known as the Caribbean Caucus, sponsored by disgraced financier Allen Stanford. The group, formed to promote relations with Caribbean nations, took 11 trips to places like St. Croix, Montego Bay and Key Biscayne. The meetings, which included receptions with lobster, caviar and wine, cost $311,307 and were paid for by the Inter-American Economic Council, a non-profit funded by Stanford. Other members of the Caucus included convicted influence peddler Rep.
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They also returned to Burketown, Queensland at least once for the same reason. He took only 20 horses, so was unable to investigate far inland, and made no strong recommendation for the site of the capital, though his choice ultimately fell on the Liverpool River, in Arnhem Land. A. T. Saunders (1854–1940), South Australia's noted amateur historian and critic of Cadell the self-publicist and influence-peddler, had little to say on this page in his history. One contemporary newspaper editor however, held nothing back in his satire on Cadell's pomposity.
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