black marketeer

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But he had plenty of good to say about the villainous, “picture-making performance” of late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who played the extremely dangerous black marketeer Owen Davian.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 2023

Or he has shape-shifted into Orson Welles’s Harry Lime — the oily, amoral black marketeer at the center of the 1949 film noir “The Third Man.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2022

Already Turkey has the makings of a bomb program: uranium deposits and research reactors — and mysterious ties to the nuclear world’s most famous black marketeer, Abdul Qadeer Khan of Pakistan.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 20, 2019

To follow the money within the Islamic State, Mr. Cohen must track the group’s oil sales from black marketeer to black marketeer until the cash finally ends up traceable in a bank or financial institution.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2014

“In North Korea only the strong survive,” said the onetime black marketeer, a former salesman of used televisions who spent much of his life in Pyongyang but who eventually escaped to South Korea.

From Time • Oct. 25, 2012