bad influence (?.)

• Jonah
• Rasputin
• Svengali
• access
• big wheel
• court
• curse
• eminence grise
• enchantment
• evil eye
• evil genius
• evil star
• five-percenter
• friend at court
• good influence
• gray eminence
• heavyweight
• hex
• hidden hand
• hoodoo
• ill wind
• influence
• influence peddler
• influencer
• ingroup
• jinx
• key
• kingmaker
• lobby
• lobbyist
• lords of creation
• malevolent influence
• malocchio
• man of influence
• manipulator
• open sesame
• powers that be
• pressure group
• sinister influence
• special interests
• special-interest group
• spell
• the Establishment
• very important person
• voodoo
• whammy
• wheeler-dealer
• wire-puller