Sentence examples for peddling of influence from inspiring English sources

We know that to understand politics and the peddling of influence we must follow the money.

A woman at the big house, on Palo Alto Avenue, who identified herself as Mr. Malik's mother, said yesterday that her son could not have taken a bribe because he is a devout Muslim and the Koran forbids the peddling of influence.

All too often, multinational companies contribute to the culture of corruption by either ignoring laws, or by the peddling of influence at the highest levels of government.

One non-partisan group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, claims that Mr Pombo, a DeLay protégé, is one of the 13 most corrupt members of Congress, guilty of everything from peddling his influence as chairman of the House Resources Committee to feathering the family nest.

And she lost support when her successor as chief of staff was accused of peddling influence with companies seeking contracts and loans with the government and state development bank.

They are suspected of peddling influence in return for bribes.

July 2014: Placed under formal investigation on suspicion of peddling influence to obtain details from a magistrate about legal proceedings against him in 2013.

Rose Sang spares no one: not the police, nor the reporters frantically competing for a scoop, nor the municipal workers of Marseille, European Capital of Culture 2013, whom author Annabelle Desmais portrays as guilty of bribery and peddling influence.

She is facing charges of influence peddling.

Still, Sarkozy and his lawyer risked accusations of influence peddling.

He was convicted of influence peddling in 2009 and bundled off to prison.