middleman

It didn’t mention that in some cases First Brands served as a middleman, collecting payments from customers then passing them on to the financial institutions such as Point Bonita.

The country had a reputation as a marketplace where local middlemen paid impoverished mothers to hand over their infants.

They explain that intermediaries, or middlemen, may offer them as little as $5.50 per bag, but after paying for thread and transport, they often earn as little as $1.50 - excluding the time spent weaving.

The travel certificates showed how a network of resellers replaced pet stores as middlemen while disguising where puppies were actually bred.

But in recent decades, something more controversial has emerged in the US: a network of for-profit businesses that act as middlemen, acquiring bodies from individuals, dissecting them, and then selling them on.