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

That theme played out in Moscow, where Oleg and Ruslan’s efforts to clean up the grocery trade were stymied by the black marketeer Dmitri’s unwillingness to out the powerful people he serves.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2017

“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