middle a diamond for me

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Mike Hussey

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Lefty: I'm asking you to middle a diamond for me here. All I want from my end is $8,000.
Pistone: And I'm saying to you is you should give it to somebody that don't know better, because that's a fugazy.

What does "middle a diamond for me" mean?
It means "to act as a middle man"? So Lefty wants Pistone to find a a buyer for his diamond?

Source: Donnie Brasco (a 1997 American crime drama film directed by Mike Newell)
 
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That would be my guess.
 
Yes, that's what it means in this context.
 
He wants him to fence the diamond.
 
The verb comes from the term middle man.
 
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