The phrase "a kingpin of" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a person or entity that is central or crucial to a particular organization, activity, or operation, often with a connotation of influence or control.
Example: "He was known as a kingpin of the local music scene, bringing together artists and venues to create unforgettable events."
Alternatives: "a key player in" or "a central figure in".
Canada's Constitution makes Mr. Klein a kingpin of Canadian energy.
And Greenpeace issued a report identifying the company as a "kingpin of climate science denial".
He is a kingpin of the Southern California circuit who won the Kentucky Derby three times, the Preakness five times and the Belmont once.
A kingpin of that era, General Larbi Belkheir, died in January after a long illness that left a vacuum which Mr Bouteflika filled to puff up his own power.
One donor has had some climate bloggers up in arms: the man behind the Charles G Koch Charitable Foundation owns, with his brother David, Koch Industries, a company Greenpeace called a "kingpin of climate science denial".
Berhe was extradited to Italy in June, amid initial fanfare from the Italian and British police, who were involved in the operation, and who claimed to have caught a kingpin of north African smuggling.
They also included the frequent reporting of the player's current chance of success for a player of defeating a Kingpin to prevent the player from being frustrated by trying to fight Kingpins beyond their level.
McConaughey was cast as a straight man named Ron Woodroof, who is given a diagnosis of AIDS in the early days of the epidemic and who goes on to become a kingpin distributor of unapproved remedies.
Proposition 64 is sponsored by Lyndon LaRouche and his National Democratic Policy Committee of Leesburg, Va., a group that would also have us believe Queen Elizabeth II is a kingpin (queenpin?) of the international narcotics trade and that Henry A. Kissinger is a communist agent.
LONDON — Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the one-eyed smuggler-jihadist said to be behind the seizure of foreign hostages at a gas plant in Algeria, has been a notorious kingpin of the Sahara for more than a decade.
In the current scandal, Mr. Estrada has been accused by a provincial governor who is also a gambling kingpin of receiving more than $11 million in payoffs, most of it from an illegal numbers game called jueteng.
