slush fund
Example Sentences
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Dahlia Lithwick: If you put “American politics as usual” in some imaginary halcyon past at 1 and Watergate at 10, where’s this slush fund scandal registering for you?
From Slate • May 26, 2026
Instead, he siphoned the money into a personal slush fund, leased a Manhattan apartment, renovated a lakefront property and spent $3,000 on a birthday dinner at a Michelin-starred restaurant, according to the indictment.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
In particular Saito told Takaichi that her answers on the LDP's recent slush fund scandal were unsatisfactory, media reports said.
From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025
The department said the payments were funded by a slush fund the executives created by inflating the cost of the voting machines.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2024
As you’ll remember, Nixon was at bay after a slush fund established to pay his election expenses was exposed in the press.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
