Black Market

When Cities of Salt was initially published in Arabic, black-market copies were selling in Riyadh for nearly $200. ❋ Kai Bird (2010)

With his various shady connections and through a series of illegal payoffs, Siegel obtained black-market building materials at low enough prices for construction to resume on the Flamingo. ❋ Thaddeus Russell (2010)

WikiLeaks cables contained unconfirmed reports of Cairo turning down black-market offers of nuclear technology from former Soviet states in the early 1990s. ❋ Joe Cirincione (2011)

Years later, when I was working in Warsaw and I got to know about black-market records, I gave my mother replacements of all her worn-out Tony Gardner albums, including that one I scratched. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Late last year, the corruption probe led to the arrests of seven people, including two Prince George's police officers, in the scheme to distribute black-market alcohol and cigarettes. ❋ Maria Glod (2011)

Their aim is to somehow debunk the common-sense fact that legal sourcing erodes the black-market profits of organized crime. ❋ Laura Carlsen (2010)

Federal officials have said the case against the Johnsons' is part of a broader corruption investigation that also led to the Nov. 15 arrests of seven people, including two Prince George's County police officers, in an alleged scheme to distribute black-market alcohol and cigarettes. ❋ Maria Glod (2011)

She was soon stealing pots, dishes, utensils, fruit, a flat-screen TV that "fell off an outrigger canoe," black-market human hearts. ❋ Tallulah Morehead (2010)

Two are listed by name: Leslie Johnson and liquor store owner Amrik Melhi, who was charged in November in a scheme to distribute black-market alcohol and cigarettes. ❋ Maria Glod (2011)

The only way to pop the proverbial balloon is to legalize and regulate the drug trade, which would eliminate the opportunity to make enormous black-market profits. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Gadhafi's retribution prepared to escape across the border to Egypt, the black-market exchange rate for the Libyan dinar in rebel-held areas plummeted to as low as 1.80 against the dollar, compared with 1.25 two weeks earlier and some 1.50 last week. ❋ Yaroslav Trofimov (2011)

District Court in Greenbelt with participating in a scheme to distribute black-market alcohol and cigarettes. ❋ Maria Glod (2011)