Although pirates make sophisticated use of middlemen, agents, lawyers, and publicists, it remains at heart a thuggish and duplicitous business.
Governments must impose greater transparency on the use of middlemen, agents and brokers, including public disclosure of what they are paid and the details of the specific work they have undertaken.
With bribery and corruption de rigueur — a Transparency International study estimated that the arms trade accounted for almost 40 percent of corruption in all global trade — there are very few arms transactions that do not involve illegality, most often through middlemen, agents or dealers like Mr. Bout.
In fact, what they're really saying is: we're delighted to announce we will now be taking even more of your money and giving it to footballers, footballers' garden liaison officers, middlemen, agents, club owners and, of course, our own pension pots.
An appointed chief executive looks after the board's administration and the regional officers, and middlemen or agents liaise between the board and film producers.
But that 1 percent to 3 percent would have to wend all the way down that river of production — past the eddies and breakwaters of corporate boards and middlemen, subcontracting agents and compradors, to reach those who really need it.
That doesn't mean keeping middlemen like agents or multi-channel networks out of the process, but it does mean Fleek is a place where all the communication around a campaign can happen.
With bribery and corruption de rigueur, there are very few arms transactions that do not involve illegality, most often through middlemen or agents.
Many of these funds said they invested in Carlyle/Riverstone without the use of a middleman or placement agent.
As for Riverstone, the fund was accused of making several questionable payments, including $5 million in fees to Hank Morris, an influential middleman, or placement agent, who helped arrange the New York pension fund's investment in three Riverstone/Carlyle funds totaling $530 million.
