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Schiff’s signature moment came with the prosecution of Richard Miller, an incompetent finagler who also happened to be an FBI agent.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2020

In the 1975 film “Three Days of the Condor” he played another sinister figure — an amoral finagler for a federal spy agency — and got more good notices.

From New York Times • Sep. 11, 2011

Nonetheless, Big Brother seems confident that the days of the finagler and the fudger are numbered.

From Time Magazine Archive

The 68-member court is still at it, but the day is long past when its revelations could cost a finagler his job �or even his head.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Without his gifts as a bureaucratic finagler, the shows just wouldn’t have got on. I owe him much. Leave it at that.”

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow