He was working for the London Evening Standard at the time, and wrote a series of articles about how Ken had been making dodgy payments to anti-racist organisations that his aide, Lee Jasper, had ties to.
Such power cannot easily be secured by a politician who made dodgy backroom deals to secure electoral victory.
You see, while everyone else was making dodgy animations, editing their journeys to work for posterity or using it to film that video of Jesy from Little Mix's admittedly hilarious impression of a Jamaican, Mendes realised he could use it to upload his cover versions.
McDonald's aside, only rarely has Pret made dodgy PR moves or indulged in "Leggera" model silliness.
The industry is closely regulated in Britain, but oil firms have an unenviable history of making dodgy deals with unsavoury governments, violating safety standards, polluting and resisting inconvenient environmental truths.
That's what Washington has become: if our side makes dodgy recess appointments, it is for the greater good (as we define it); if the other side uses the same tactics, it's an outrage against nature and the sacred Constitution.
The state will then be forced to make huge loans to dodgy firms, as was the case with AIG and Royal Bank of Scotland.
This vision has appeal, but the policy is beset by dodgy reasoning to make it add up.
Others buy goods in neighbouring countries where traders have smuggled them in from Congo and have arranged dodgy paperwork to make the deals look legal.
