racketeer

How To Use racketeer In A Sentence

• The collapse of the command economy has given way to a good deal of racketeering and corruption.
• Simon Jenkins, a columnist with the UK's Guardian recently called Zuma a rapist and a racketeer in perhaps one of the most acerbic pieces yet the Guardian has published on Zuma.
• Like Harry Lime, the penicillin-diluting racketeer he plays in the film, Welles infects The Third Man from opening titles to closing credits.
• A true oddity, it's a film about some twisted racketeers involved with a travelling carnival.
• She would recount how it was possible to buy anything - from meat, chocolate, cigarettes and the obligatory ‘nylons’ - from the spivs and black market racketeers.
• And furthermore, every insurance company in the country does the same thing, which in my language we call racketeering and price-fixing. Archive 2007-01-01
• He also faces racketeering and money laundering charges in the US. The Sun
• The federal racketeering case against the national president of the Outlaws motorcycle gang and three of his associates is going to a jury in Virginia. Biker gang trial in Va. goes to jury
• Investigators and prosecutors must be seen to attack with full force the betrayers of the public trust who are aligned with the gangsters, racketeers and terrorists keeping this country under siege.
• The charges included racketeering, conspiracy, bank fraud, securities fraud, misapplication of funds and interstate transportation of stolen property.