shining everyone on

[Mike Hussey]

Marie says to Jason:

Marie: I took all the money I had. I went in with friends......we took over this really cool surf shop outside Biarritz, right by the water. It was amazing. It was just amazing for about three months, until it turned out that this......jerk who had fronted us the lease was actually shining everyone on and...

What does "shining everyone on" mean?

Source: The Bourne Identity (a 2002 American action-thriller film based on Robert Ludlum's novel of the same name)

 

[emsr2d2]

I've never heard it and I haven't found anything useful online, even in slang dictionaries, but it strikes me that it probably means something like "conning" or "cheating". It sounds like the person who leased the surf shop to them was running some kind of shady deal.

 

[Tdol]

And if they had fronted the lease, they were possibly crooks without the right to do this.

 

[GoesStation]

To front someone something usually means to loan​ it to them. I can't make sense of the bit of dialog.

 

[jutfrank]

This might be useful:

https://forum.wordreference.com/threads/a-guy-who-had-fronted-us-the-lease.1741971/