But for all its lucrative influence, which includes the many varietals of "CSI," the cult film doesn't earn the many critical reappraisals that have come since.
An even better example is former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who, soon after leaving office, used his prestige to create a highly lucrative influence brand dubbed "Blair, Inc".
Our concerns about lobbying involve the relationship between lobbying and political cash, the lobbyists who have little or no fealty to the broader public interest, and those politicians or Hill staffers who see public office as a pathway to a lucrative influence-peddling career.
They may sprout like innocent little flowers from the fertile soil of the Internet, but just like Republicans and Democrats, they will grow up groveling for big campaign donations, letting corporate lobbyists tell them how to vote, and walking through the revolving door to lucrative influence-peddling jobs when they leave office.
He took $2.4m in bribes for trying to influence lucrative defence deals.
In recent years, dozens of key staffers for powerful Senators have left the political arena to work for as lobbyists for the financial sector, and policy gurus from both sides of the aisle are jumping ship for lucrative careers as influence peddlers on Wall Street.
Urban identifiers are a lucrative market, and their influence extends to others in their household and other parts of society.
The army exploits this influence to win lucrative contracts, muscle in on land deals, run protection rackets, set up wildcat mines, and so on.But all this is not quite as sinister as it sounds.
In a rare move, Mr. Christie disclosed the existence of the investigation in 2003 in a letter to state legislative committees that were poised to issue subpoenas in trying to determine whether Mr. Taffet and Mr. Levinsohn had improperly acted and used political influence to gain lucrative billboard sites on state-owned property before selling the business.
Interviewed by Andrew Bolt on Channel Ten on Sunday, Joyce, the agriculture minister, said the decision was a "disgrace" and suggested academics had been influenced by a lucrative web of climate change consultancies.
The third candidate was the Dassault Mirage 2000-5 Mk 2. According to Stephen Larrabee, the choice to go with the F-16 was heavily influenced by a lucrative offset agreement by Lockheed Martin, and the political emphasis placed on the strategic relationship between Poland, the US, and NATO.
