Spending one's time rubbing elbows with dictators, lobbying on behalf of large corporations, backstabbing business partners, colluding with Russians, and generally being a shady sonuvagun.
First used by Judge T.S. Ellis in his explanation for his sentencing of Paul Manafort.
Paul Manafort should only go to jail for 47 months for his crimes which carry a maximum sentence in the decades because he has led an otherwise blameless life.
Like a boomerang of guilt and shame; when you toss out a carefully constructed comment blaming another person for some issue, it turns around and implicates your guilt in the issue.
My comment blameranged when I pointed out that his project was causing a problem and it turned out to be some shared code I wrote.