boodler

Cheaper, botched fakes were sold or sharewared to low-level gangs of boodler wannabes.

Butler was a "boodler," one who sold for personal gain "the rights, privileges, franchises, and real property of the city" to prominent businessmen and corporations.

Besides salary and per diem, each Secret Service employee received a whopping twenty-five dollars for each boodler he captured.

If he should succeed in taking over Ray-See-Nee's government in full, every crook and boodler on the planet would lose everything he had; possibly even his life.

The Liberal Globe newspaper derided him as a "boodler" and "the notorious 'Boy'", and argued that his support for prohibition was based on a hypocritical calculation for personal advantage.

This is the estimate made for me by a banker, who said that the boodler got not one-tenth the value of the things they sold, but were content because they got it all themselves."

"He is not a person whose manners and characteristics we would desire to represent us," he felt, "for he is very ignorant, and then he would be, no doubt, a boodler, accepting bribes for services which he would render."

Boodle, or boodler, was a bar-room or street term for money or booty applied by the yellow press (in 1884-1886) to members of the New York Board of Aldermen who were charged with accepting bribes in connection with the granting of a franchise for a street railroad on Broadway.