Mac Alarney is a retired prize-fighter, in close touch with all the political crooks and grafters in the city.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
You may storm at them, but they only laugh at you; you may pass laws, and try to put them in jail, but you only provide a harvest for blackmailers and grafters.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair
"It's not a heap of use blaming grafters for their graft.
"The Son of his Father"
Ridgwell Cullum