In starkly contrasting portrayals, his defense team sought to present him as an above-board businessman who had the blessing of the town's mayor and city attorney, while prosecutors depicted him as a common drug dealer who sold to teenagers.
It is common for dealers to rob other dealers and taking risks is all part of moving up the ladder.
You see, each spring around this time, the crocuses start to bloom, dogs begin to shed, and the Big Apple BBQ draws meat merchants from around the country to Madison Square Park, where they swap smoked goods for cash like common drug dealers.
As more people began to use the Commons, the dealers went elsewhere and drug users started cleaning up after themselves.
The most common form of dealer financing is the repurchase agreement, through which dealers sell parts of their inventory temporarily, subject to repurchase.
It's common for a dealer, for example, to get it from a show promoter's excess inventory.
"A very common scenario: The dealer has title and transfers it to the lender, but makes sure the registration tags come to the dealership, not the buyer.
As is common at car dealers across America, Fowlkes drove off the lot without registration while the dealer arranged the transfer of ownership with the state DMV.
Then he waged war on the collusive practices and price fixing that were common among Nasdaq dealers and New York Stock Exchange brokers.
The series started out as a cops-and-gangsters story but soon spread out to tie together cultures that appeared to have little in common - drug dealers, the police, government and political lobbyists, schools and the media.
