boodler

A boodler is a person who gives or takes bribes, according to my dictionary - Jo

Representative John Dingell, the Michigan Democrat sometimes called "Tailpipe John" for his understanding attitude about auto exhaust emissions and no mean boodler himself, called the Senate amendment "deeply flawed," and added that decisions on what drugs to test and how "should be left to scientific peer review and not made by the Congress in this manner."

The forum has been too much taken over to hysterics, paranoids, and boodlers on all sides.

Folk rode a wave of popularity to the governorship when muckraker Lincoln Steffens praised him in magazine articles as the circuit attorney who convicted " boodlers "(bribers)" in St.

Scott thus made a hero of another labourite, the worker's budding parliamentary representative, frequently portraying him battling Fat or corrupt politicians ('boodlers'), (44) undemocratic legislative Upper Houses as literal monsters, (45) or nonwhite immigrants, sometimes all at once, as in our opening image.

Harmony and order could be restored by driving the monopolists and boodlers and cheats from the temple of property.

In the tradition of Lincoln Steffens, who set out in 1902 to expose the shame of America's cities, Summers wants to indict the boodlers. But where Steffens learned from his investigation that corruption sprang from the very heart and soul of American culture, Summers remains simply appalled at the muck on his rake.