So hardly a journalist by most definitions; more of a bagman on his own account.
Mark Silvester's lawyer, James A. Wade, called his client "just a bagman" on the periphery of his brother's schemes and asked Judge Covello to reduce the sentence because Mr. Silvester had cooperated with investigators.
"Tramps" scampers in and around New York City as Danny Callum Turnerr) steps in as bagman on some shady exchange of a briefcase when his hustler older brother lands in jail.
The ability to follow the money has never been this important since the bagman days of the Watergate scandal.
There, according to a federal indictment announced on Aug. 28, Mr. Galardi used Mr. Malone as a bagman to deliver thousands of dollars in disguised campaign contributions to Councilmen Ralph Inzunza, Charles Lewis and Michael Zucchet.
In the fall of 2001, in the aftermath of 9/11, as families grieved and the nation mourned, Washington swarmed with locusts of the human kind: wartime opportunists, lobbyists, lawyers, ex-members of Congress, bagmen for big donors: all of them determined to grab what they could for their corporate clients and rich donors while no one was looking.
The titular death involves the mysterious end of a fixer and bagman to a corrupt president, although there are many other deaths – through genocide, massacres and assassinations.
But in 1945 Roscoe, the boss, bagman and brains of the machine, is ill and tired of the game.
Mr. Rashid, who last week met top officials in Washington, is regarded by many Palestinians as the bagman for the most notoriously corrupt elements of Mr. Arafat's regime.
From his testimony to Congress earlier this month, Petraeus still seemed to believe in the possible use of force against Iran, and more particularly the revolutionary guard, as principal bagman and quartermaster of the Shia militias.
