Do "fixers" like Winston Wolfe in Pulp Fiction actually exist in real life? How does one go about getting one or hearing about one? Are they all mob connected or something?

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• ExtremeDullard@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Here’s one. Definitely working for a crime family.

  You get to hear about one when you’re rich enough, because you can’t become rich beyond a certain level without being a crook.

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  • harmbugler@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Hey look, another one

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• shittydwarf@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Cosby, Trump, Weinstein and the like used fixers to silence victims with a combination of NDAs, intimidation, legal threats, having the national inquirer “buy” the stories and then lock them away, etc

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• mech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yes, they exist. But pretty much only in the context of organized crime.

  Outside of a criminal organisation, there’s no way to gauge trustworthiness.
  You’d hire one, they’ll want payment in advance cause they don’t know you, but then what keeps them from just disappearing with your money? It’s not like you can sue them or leave a bad review.

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  • CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    …and by organized crime, we must include business and politics. When doing business in other countries, especially the more corrupt, a local “fixer”, aka consultant, will help you navigate the landscape. They ensure the right palms are greased.

    Even straightlaced companies get stuck with it. Could be as simple as a bid-bond getting “lost”.

    Could be ensuring your staff have the correct security arrangements, like paying local gangs enough to get word to leave your people alone.

    It takes on many flavours, depending on context. Sometimes they are part of a countries public service, or intelligence agency.

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• IWW4@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fixers exist in every profession and every workplace.

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• infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Nearly any executive assistant is a fixer. Fixers are masters of figuring it out and using connections to make things happen.

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• CallMeAl@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  nice try fbi

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  • bizzle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    FBI is too busy partying to make any attempt at their actual jobs

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  • Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If only, they’ve been compromised by Trump to become his personal intimidation force

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• hayvan@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Fixers are all about connections. If you are rich enough, or politically important, you probably have a fixer. You wronged someone? Your son drove drunk and ran over someone? For the right price your fixer can make the problem disappear. It can be bribe, intimidation, settlement, or in the most extreme case, arrange an unfortunate accident.

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• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  As someone who was briefly involved in that lifestyle, they exist, but it isn’t one person you call, it’s a network of people you trust that have their own specialties.

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• Telodzrum@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Michael Collins is a more true-to-life depiction of what a non-organized crime fixer does — making things go more smoothly with law enforcement or other monied interests.

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• twinnie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I always thought those concierges in fancy hotels act a bit like that. I’ve heard that guests can show up with weird rich person problems and be like “I need three gold Ferraris by 9pm” and the concierges will have to make it happen.

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• Nastybutler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Someone check OP’s back seat for a dead body

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• fcuks@piefed.social ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  in a non-gangstery/political and more creative industries sense, fixers are also people who for example may know a city or country, who producers can turn to for local knowledge and connections, if the producer doesn’t have their own connections that they need to do xxx yy zz

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