wheeling and dealing

A gossipy and scheming group of cardinals must select the new Pope, but there is backstabbing, wheeling and dealing behind the scenes.

But behind the scenes, there is skullduggery, wheeling and dealing, and conspiracy as the frontrunners try to improve their chances.

“I’m glad that the wheeling and dealing will be gone,” said the then-supervisor, who died last year.

“Then you have a different kind of mushroom and you learn the different ways they’re prepared. It was more the texture than the taste that I didn’t like. I’m not just out here wheeling and dealing, getting mushrooms on my food, but I can eat them. I’m not like a child about it anymore.”

For weeks, the spectre of Cohen's testimony has hovered over the trial, his name repeatedly invoked as prosecutors walked jurors down a trail of wheeling and dealing in bank statements, text messages, witness testimony, emails and recordings of crucial conversations.