Word: bagmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...congressional committee chairmen. He would have his clients believe that he is at least as powerful. "In the old days, lobbyists never got any publicity," says Veteran Lobbyist Maurice Rosenblatt, who has prowled the halls of Congress for several decades. "Congressmen didn't want to be seen with notorious bagmen. But now, he shrugs, "the so-called best lobbyists get the most publicity...
...indictment traces the flow of illegal cash from the Stardust counting and cashier's cages through a number of bagmen for delivery to Mob leaders in the three Midwest cities. FBI agents, for example, claim to have followed Joseph Talerico, a Teamster business agent from Chicago, on monthly trips between Las Vegas and Chicago that sometimes took more than a week as he tried to throw off any trackers. The agents have sworn they watched Talerico pick up packages from a Stardust executive and then meet Aiuppa in Chicago...
...backed regime in Cambodia. Soviet planners, poring over their maps in search of targets of opportunity, should have to reckon with the likelihood that the MiGs they have supplied to some would-be invader will encounter U.S.-made surface-to-air missiles. Moscow's cloak-and-dagger agents, bagmen and propagandists should also have to contend with American operatives trying to organize pro-Western political forces. When that day comes, Thailand will be less likely to go the way of Cambodia, Niger the way of Chad, or Oman the way of South Yemen. Clearly stated declarations of U.S. commitments...