Mezue nkebi ahịrịokwu a: Bagley bụ onye ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị a ma ama nke na-enye onyinye na onye na-akpata ego bụ́ onye "n'ime ọtụtụ afọ [weerela] ọtụtụ nde dollar maka ndị na-azọ ọchịchị Democratic". Di ya nwụrụ anwụ, Smith W. Bagley (1935<unk>2010), bụ onye nketa nke akụnụba ụtaba R. J. Reynolds na Onye isi oche ego maka Kọmitii Democratic Democratic, a na-elekwa Bagleys anya dị ka "abụọ n'ime ndị na-akụ ego kachasị na [Democratic] party". E jikọtara ya na Clintons kemgbe mkpọsa onye isi ala nke Bill Clinton na 1992, Ọ bụ nnukwu onye na-enweta ego n'oge mkpọsa ndị isi ala nke Hillary Clinton na 2008 na 2016. Tụkwasị na nke ahụ, ya na di ya enyela ihe karịrị $1,000,000 na Clinton Foundation. Ọ bụkwa "akụkụ nke otu ndị na-ahụ maka ego mba maka mkpọsa Obama, ebe ọ chịkọtara onwe ya ihe karịrị $ 350,000" site na August 2008. Bagley "welitekwara ihe ruru $600,000 maka President Obama's
emume mmalite" n'afọ 2009. Onyeisiala Obama gara n'ụlọ ya dị na mpaghara Georgetown nke Washington D.C. n'afọ 2011.