Quotes About Bagmen

I shook my head. "Um, the Bagmen are directing us. I think Sol is using them to help us." Aric did a double take. "Jaysus! The Empress has gone mental. As can happen when you're diddlin' Death.

Almost no one under 60 remembers what fundraising was like before Watergate. Until the 1970s, campaign money was collected by "bagmen," familiar characters from the world of organized crime. As fans of Boardwalk Empire know, a bagman is a political fixer who walked around with stacks of $100 and $1,000 bills. At lower levels, he used brown paper bags. In presidential campaigns, the cash was more likely to be in briefcases. Classier that way.