Cunning guys, who earn enough money to hire people by selling goods, will form a trio: one selling goods, one guarding goods and one keeping watch.

When the police squad began to monitor street drug dealers and arrested them according to the observed sales volume, they had all the more reason to hide the goods near his jewelry or in a dark corner.

The above is the description of drug dealers in "From Fragments to Weight: Past Events in South Queens". Hustler refers to those cunning drug dealers, and it seems inappropriate to translate them into "liars" according to the dictionary.