well connected 
adjective
Acquainted with or related to people with prestige or influence: the author is so well connected that he gets reviews everywhere...
- In many cases involving powerful and well-connected suspects, there is perceived interference in the police investigation.
- It was not mainly the rich, powerful, or well-connected of Europe who came, but those of a more modest station.
- He remains a powerful and immensely well-connected figure at the centre of the Scottish business world.
- run proof
- run rate
- run resist
- run resistant
- runrig
- run rings round
- run riot
- run-round
- runshie
- run someone in
- run someone out
- run someone out of town
- run someone ragged
- run someone/thing close
- run someone/thing down
- run someone/thing over
- run someone/thing through
- run someone/thing to earth (or ground)
- run someone/thing to ground
- run something by (or past)
- run something down (or run down)
- run something in
- run something off
- run something up
- run something up the flagpole (to see who salutes)