wheeler and dealer

“He’s a wheeler and dealer and would stab anybody in the back to get up the ladder,” said Daniel Kane, a retired Teamster who worked for Herrera as a business agent and organizer during Herrera’s rise to power in the early 2000s.

The document is a sordid account of how a wheeler and dealer in the state’s nascent, ill-regulated marijuana industry corrupted one of San Luis Obispo County’s most powerful politicians, who was apparently brazen enough to write in a text message to his illicit benefactor that he deserved “one giant French kiss wrapped in money” after fighting off a proposal to ban outdoor cannabis grows.

Dipoto, an inveterate wheeler and dealer, hasn’t hit with all his trades and signings, but there is enough of a core there that he has brought in — the likes of J.P.

“But you know Les Snead. He’s a wheeler and dealer, you never know.”

In “Lampedusa,” Steven Price’s fictional account of how the novel came to be written, Lampedusa himself is no wheeler and dealer.