How to Use bagman in a Sentence
bagman
noun-
The white-suited bagman, a fixture since 1993 and one of his best friends, wasn't sure.
— Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 30 Mar. 2018 -
And there was this friendly guy who could only be called his bagman.
— Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2017 -
The most suspect funds were brought in by Johnny Chung, a bagman for the Asian billionaire Riady family.
— John Fund, National Review, 16 July 2017 -
The leader of the Massachusetts State Senate was put on trial for extorting money from one of the guys who’d been his bagman for over a decade.
— Charles P. Pierce, SI.com, 30 Sep. 2017 -
Whatever the answer, Zinke has become a bagman for an administration that wants to cut the program’s funding to a historic low.
— Elliott D. Woods, Outside Online, 6 June 2018 -
Chris Mack has emphatically denied any tie to Miller or Christian Dawkins, the associate-slash- bagman.
— Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 23 Feb. 2018 -
Roberts served as Ike’s financial adviser and executor, and, after Roberts helped arrange his run for President, as his bagman.
— Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019 -
With the Depression in full swing, former successful theater manager and independent stockbroker Eddie has been reduced to working as a bagman for a lowly Irish gangster.
— Rayyan Al-Shawaf, Philly.com, 22 Oct. 2017
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