Comment by Arson9416

  Step 1: Dazzle an influential person
  Step 2: Persuade them to hitch their reputation to you
  Step 3: Do whatever you want with minimal repercussions

Follow these 3 steps and influential people will actively fight on your behalf, against their own best interests, to avoid embarrassing themselves and diminishing their reputations. Use each influential person as a stepping stone to an even more influential person and repeat.