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wheeler -dealer ‎(plural wheeler-dealers)

(informal) A shrewd political or commercial schemer, especially one who is unscrupulous; a hustler; a shady operator.
- 1990 Nov. 26, Ed Magnuson and Hays Gorey, "You Sold Your Office ," Time:
  Seated at separate tables to underscore their differing levels of involvement with indicted savings and loan wheeler-dealer Charles Keating, the five were fighting to regain reputations earned in a lifetime of public service.

political or commercial schemer