Sentence examples for the bagman from inspiring English sources

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the bagman

noun

A person who collects, transports, or distributes illicit money, especially for the purpose of bribery, extortion, or the making of other improper payments.

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The ability to follow the money has never been this important since the bagman days of the Watergate scandal.

As Lindsay pointed out he's the go-between, the bagman, the guy who makes the mess go away.

He alleged that De Lima was having an affair with her driver, who acted as the bagman.

"Echo Park" takes its title not only from the Bagman but from Mr. Connelly's typically sharp, evocative eye for his Los Angeles terrain.

The bagman, however, was a fellow Christian, an elderly blue-eyed man who made the rounds of churches for the insurgents, the priest said.

Unlike some of his peers, who are quick to glare at the bagman when something goes askance, the youngster simply shrugs and moves on.

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Replace the diehards, the sycophants, the bagmen for the rich.

The bagmen have become the banks and Wall Street.

Once more showing the sure touch that could make Republicans the dominant party until the cows come home, the Democratic bagman Terry McAuliffe turned his back on New York City, the damsel in tristesse that has always come through for Democratic presidential candidates.

But in 1945 Roscoe, the boss, bagman and brains of the machine, is ill and tired of the game.

Their evidence largely corroborates that provided by his other witnesses: the scared ex-cops still acting tough, the forlorn bagman who weeps in his prison cell, and a puffy good-time girl who confesses to sex-and-drugs orgies with a brace of renegade LAPD men.

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