When Philippa first contacted her daughter via an intermediary, she wrote back saying she didn't want contact, but was happy to say that she was OK. "I was thrilled to have any response," she says.
"My life and the lives of my family were threatened with bodily harm if certain payments were not made to Venezuelan officials or their alleged intermediaries," Illarramendi wrote.
It "has been a huge success in terms of size, growth and profitability for its operators and for many intermediaries," he writes.
Or, they can lean on someone like me as their internet intermediary, making formal, written requests for information online.
A Russia intermediary named Rob Goldstone writes an email to Donald Trump Jr. offering information that "would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father".
Ocalan became, Biehl later wrote to the intermediary, "a beacon for [Bookchin] in his declining years".
"We have offered to act as an intermediary between the unknown scholar and the library," he wrote.
"If he needs private briefings we can accommodate," Manafort wrote in an email to an overseas intermediary between him and aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, the Post reported, citing people familiar with the discussions.
But in a 1995 book, "Bound to Forgive," he wrote that while he was in captivity, intermediaries delivered a letter from his nephew David.
But when he refused to pay the legally agreed allowance, she wrote to his cousin, Edward, who acted as an intermediary.
