shady deal
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Many Redditors and conspiracy theorists on Twitter also speculated that Robinhood had made a shady deal with Citadel Securities, a market making firm that was Robinhood's primary customer, and Melvin Capital Management.
From Salon • Sep. 29, 2022
Chuck is at the same time looking into pursuing his own shady deal by bankrolling his lawyer’s investment in a company called Ice Juice.
From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2017
Blair added that it was a "shady deal" authorised by Mabey, who lives in Maidenhead, Berkshire, and Forsyth, of Butts Meadow in Hampshire, the firm's then managing director.
From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2011
The barrister said: "There was a shady deal going on, on the side of it."
From BBC • Jan. 18, 2011
He had served in ships where the commander had been utterly at the mercy of some contemptible dish-washer who had wormed himself into his superior's confidence, acting perhaps as a go-between in some shady deal.
From Command by McFee, William