"insider connections" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to a person who has access to information or resources that are not available to the general public. For example, "With his insider connections, John was able to get tickets to the exclusive concert."
They have secret recipes and secret ingredients, inside knowledge and insider connections, new ideas and new technologies, unknown fonts of inspiration from which their advantages derive.
Since beginning this work at the start of the year, journalists and fellow analysts pass him documents and he has on one occasion travelled inside Syria to cultivate insider connections.
She's shocked, shocked, to learn that money and insider connections wield undue influence inside her party's establishment.
The Russian people voted for Putin in part because of their resentment at what they believed to be US interference in their internal affairs; in part because they believed he would rout out the "Oligarchs" -- the well-connected big businessmen who had enriched themselves through insider connections during the Yeltsin years.
If lacking insider connections, try being polite and offering a Slovenian model or four.
Mr. Xie told a tale of insider connections, many of his customers said.
The insider connection makes the lobbyists valuable to clients, and the lobbyists' connections to potential campaign donors is valuable to lawmakers.
Luddite officials see complex tech issues as a mysterious minefield and the greenhorn technology industry does not have the insider D.C. connections to move beyond unwieldy protests outside the gated halls of America's capitol.
We contribute to the academic literature by documenting one channel through which politically connected insiders can extract rents from shareholders; by documenting the relation between insiders' political connections and information leakage; and by documenting an important characteristic of directors' social network that influences their trading decisions.
Going back to the 1940s, and as recently as the mid-1990s, college basketball has survived periodic point-shaving, or gambling, scandals orchestrated by insiders with connections to top players.
Following Duchin and Sosyura (2012), we measure an insiders' political connections based on whether a board member has current or previous work experience at the Federal Reserve, a bank regulator (e.g., FDIC, OTS, or OCC), Treasury, or Congress, and measure the informativeness of insider trades based on their predictive ability for future performance.
