How To Use Racketeer In A Sentence
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The collapse of the command economy has given way to a good deal of racketeering and corruption.
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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.
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Like Harry Lime, the penicillin-diluting racketeer he plays in the film, Welles infects The Third Man from opening titles to closing credits.
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A true oddity, it's a film about some twisted racketeers involved with a travelling carnival.
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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.
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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
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He also faces racketeering and money laundering charges in the US.
The Sun
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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
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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.
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The charges included racketeering, conspiracy, bank fraud, securities fraud, misapplication of funds and interstate transportation of stolen property.
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In my opinion, if the Government bans begging, the racketeers would nullify it by using their contacts with the political parties to overcome the ban.
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The charges included racketeering, conspiracy, bank fraud, securities fraud, misapplication of funds and interstate transportation of stolen property.
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Murderers and convicted racketeers will no longer be permitted to drive hazardous materials on the nation's interstates.
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The ring specialised in contract murders, abductions, explosions, racketeering and other terrorist activities.
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Nomura has bolstered its compliance system since being implicated in a scandal involving "sokaiya" corporate racketeers in 1997, but the latest incident will put its internal information-control system under intense scrutiny.
Pre-Parsing
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It's worth remembering that it's not only the obvious racketeers who are guilty of enticing people to run up debts they can't afford.
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They are the cyber-era equivalents of highwaymen, sharks, cheesy protection racketeers.
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They were doing their prospecting from the rooms of the hotels -- staking "cats" for racketeers.
Making A Mine In Canada
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In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
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Kidnapping crime includes two concrete composing items : racketeered offense and illegal imprison offense.
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BP has been named in at least three lawsuits brought under the federal law known as RICO, which stands for Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations.
BP: RICO Law Made To Combat Mafia Used Against Oil Giant In Lawsuits
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Time, the great racketeer, is always stealing from us.
2006 December 23 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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Today he was named in a federal racketeering lawsuit.
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In addition to the two mob hits, Marino, whose alleged crime family ties go back 50 years, is charged with labor racketeering as far back as 1980, as well as more recent schemes involving extortion, loansharking and gambling.
Jerry Capeci: Feds Plea Offer in Mob Sex Case Seems Rather Unseemly
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He was a famous racketeer in Chicago.
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Liam shows himself quite adept at the drug business, and eventually attracts the notice of local racketeers.
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In Division Street, for example, he interviewed a host of people living in or near Chicago, including racketeers, landladies, bar owners, steelworkers, slum-dwellers and social workers.
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The paramilitary organisations on both sides have long since been political fronts for gangsterism and racketeering.
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If found guilty of the main charge of racketeering, all ten could get a life sentence and a fine of R1 billion.
Times, Sunday Times
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T. OLSON: I was at a think tank talking about something called RICO, Racketeering and Influence Corrupt Organizations Act. And Barbara was in the audience.
CNN Transcript Jan 6, 2002
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The convictions included murder, conspiracy to murder, racketeering and conspiracy to distribute drugs in prison.
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Both Alcatraz Island and The Last Gangster told the story of a racketeer sent to the Rock on tax evasion charges (as was Capone) who learns the hard way that this isn't any old hoosegow.
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No one would be so indelicate as to mention in those whispered after-dinner conversations that these families were slave-owners, plantation landlords, racketeers and exploiters.
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He was in no sense a political prisoner, but a gangster and racketeer who rightly did six years in jail.
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And "cipher" is the nom de guerre of Le Chiffre, the numbers-man racketeer of the French Communist Party and perhaps the most odiously sadistic of Fleming's villains.
Bottoms Up
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He is being held on racketeering charges.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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The film makes it clear that this miserable combination of time and place provides endless opportunities for racketeers.
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Brian McLaughlin, the area's seven-term assemblyman and head of the New York City Central Labor Council, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for racketeering and fraud - including taking money from a Queens Little League team.
CityLimits.org: News
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In effect, Colombian racketeers have successfully managed to penetrate and profit from the latest trend in the North American illegal drug market.
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Al Capone was a famous racketeer in Chicago.
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He also faces racketeering and money laundering charges in the US.
The Sun
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Gould was eventually caught last year, and pleaded guilty to 51 counts of racketeering, wire fraud, and money laundering.
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He was in no sense a political prisoner, but a gangster and racketeer who rightly did six years in jail.
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True, over the last decade, prosecutors have at last begun to figure out how to break the mob's hold; they have thrown some big racketeers in jail and forcibly injected economic competition into mobbed-up industries.
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The charge I felt they had proven was scheme to defraud, which is a first-degree felony punishable by 30 years in prison," he said, "which is the same statutory punishment ... as the racketeering charge.
TCPalm Stories
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He was acquitted of murder and racketeering twice, earning him the nickname Teflon Don, but was finally convicted in 1992.
FOXNews.com
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Three Azerbaijani wrestlers win silvers at European Championship - UPDATE Azerbaijan Press Council announces seven newspapers "racketeer
Today.Az
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If found guilty of the main charge of racketeering, all ten could get a life sentence and a fine of R1 billion.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 2009 Biller countersued, accusing Toyota of violating racketeering laws in what he termed a ruthless conspiracy and relentless effort to prevent evidence of its vehicles'
Chicagotribune.com - News
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The charges included racketeering, conspiracy, bank fraud, securities fraud, misapplication of funds and interstate transportation of stolen property.
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Years of sanctions have left behind an economy dominated by racketeers and smugglers.
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In Chhattisgarh and in Orissa, the villagers have clashed repeatedly with the Maoists who are involved in racketeering of forest resources including tendu leaves and babui fibres.
CPI(Marxist) criticism of the Revolutionary Maoists / Naxalites /CPI(Maoist)
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Plenty can be written about the racketeering that is going on inside global organisations.
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True, some of the gangs transferred to other criminal activities, like protection racketeering.
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They are vulnerable to racketeers, and their children are permanent targets for kidnappers.
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The convictions included murder, conspiracy to murder, racketeering and conspiracy to distribute drugs in prison.
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One week he's thwarting kidnappers in Rome; the next he might be battling racketeers in London or teaching a spoiled heiress a lesson in the Spanish countryside.
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District Court, accuses the three of committing murder in aid of racketeering, which is punishable by life in prison or the federal death penalty.
10 alleged SE gang members are indicted for additional crimes
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In the racketeering case, Chevron had sought a so-called prejudgment attachment against the assets of the Ecuadorean plaintiffs and their lawyers, including their interest in the Ecuadorean judgment.
Chevron Stymied in Ecuador Case
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Of course, exactly the same Chinese prostitution racketeering is doubtless happening in America, only on a bigger scale.
Chinese: The Exemplary Immigrants
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That quote used the term racketeering to describe his activities.
BlueOregon
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He idolised prize-fighters, regarded racketeers as his friends and loved money though he had difficulty holding on to it.
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The coup organisers are a group of public school boys and financial racketeers who have grabbed fabulous wealth through their arms deals.
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It featured some striking visual images, and Graham Greene's story, set against a background of racetrack racketeers, offers intriguing pre-echoes of Brighton Rock (which he published in 1938).
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It argued that the official had gotten the money as a result of his past racketeering activities, so if the money wasn't disgorged, he would benefit from his past wrongdoing.
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The privatization of state-owned companies has become a matter of commonplace racketeering.
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Like labor racketeering, this form of digital racketeering is attempting to dominate, manipulate, and control your access to information and the access of others to you.
Scripting News for 3/17/2006 « Scripting News Annex
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A federal jury convicted him on ten counts of bribery, corruption and racketeering.
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Prosecutors may soon seek an indictment on racketeering and fraud charges.
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All while spending decades building up legitimate businesses, these mafiosi engaged in racketeering, loansharking, narcotics distribution and bribing public officials.
Smithsonian Mag
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The company said it also is seeking treble damages under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act, bringing its total claim to more than $1.25 bn.
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You see, before I was a journalist, I worked for a living as an investigator of corporate racketeers.
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He was held on racketeering charges but released last week.
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He says the public does not always appreciate the social cost of large scale fraud and racketeering.
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It's part of a national chain of illegal racketeering outlets.
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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.
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They began their raids last year by arresting a prominent sokaiya, or corporate racketeer, who extorted large amounts of cash and stock by threatening to reveal dirt on top institutions, including Daichi Kangyo Bank and Nomura Securities.
Mighty Fall
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THE House of Representatives 'Ad Hoc Committee reviewing activities in the Oil and Gas sectors from 1999 - 2008 has indicted former President Olusegun Obasanjo, while recommending stiff penalties against ministry officials responsible for what it described as racketeering in oil blocks' awards during the period under review.
AllAfrica News: Latest
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The paramilitary organisations on both sides have long since been political fronts for gangsterism and racketeering.
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The Secretary of State revoked his licence because of his involvement in terrorism, racketeering and drug dealing.
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The group are part of the Tough Talk programme, which is made up of power lifters and body builders who have all been involved in the shadier side of life as debt collectors, racketeers, minders and nightclub doormen.
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He has accused her of racketeering, as well as fraud and unjust enrichment.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a wonder that the authors didn't frame the story as a biography of Casper Holstein innovator, racketeer, proud black man, stylish boulevardier and even philanthropist.
Gambling Days In Harlem
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Whereas the protection racket dominates Russian business at the street level, the government serves as the roof for oligarchic businesses that have their own security and are thus not vulnerable to crude racketeering.
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Prosecutors may soon seek an indictment on racketeering and fraud charges.
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He was acquitted of eight charges involving cocaine racketeering.
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The paramilitary organisations on both sides have long since been political fronts for gangsterism and racketeering.
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He was identified as a racketeer in hearings before a U.S.
KING - Home
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He had been convicted four times for labor racketeering.
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The suit accuses Boeing of a series of criminal acts, including racketeering and mail fraud.
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He is being held on racketeering charges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Webster's definition of 'racketeer': "one who obtains money by an illegal enterprise usually involving intimidation
Max Keiser: "Let Them Have Stained Carpets" - Obama's Marie Antoinette Moment
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He was charged with fraud and racketeering.
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he was held on charges of corruption and racketeering
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For example, on his 2010 campaign, West hired a criminal motorcycle gang that had been indicted by the FBI for violent racketeering and attempted murder to preform security for campaign events.
Richard Allen Smith: No, Rep. West, That's Not How We Speak in the Military
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It was the prosecution of a Gambino crime family capo and his crew for narcotics trafficking, murder, racketeering, jury tampering and other charges.
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In this particular case, it's a mob of undertakers who partake in a bit of racketeering and diamond theft on the side.
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Judge William Pauley III of the Southern District of New York criticized the Cintas complaint of racketeering - among other violations - as being "larded" with exhibits that he
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The area is closely monitored by the police so there is no chance for dealers, pimps and protection racketeers to move in.
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The Colombian and European racketeering cases were on the docket at federal district court in New York.
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She said it would be premature to dismiss the racketeering claim or rule out damages.
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In the United States a law against mob racketeers has been misapplied in all sorts of spheres, including throughout the securities industry.
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But she said it could continue efforts to seize billions of dollars in tobacco profits under the racketeering statute.
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In his drive for domination, Moe double-crossed his racketeering wire partners by going into business against them.
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Lucky Kunene is a carjacker-turned-property-racketeer who exploits poor black tenants in Jo'burg's shabby housing blocks, scheming rent-strikes and squat-takeovers against nervy white landlords.
Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema
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The decision, which reverses defense attorney Sam Adam Jr. 's opening promise to jurors, means an early conclusion to a trial that has revealed years of high-level wheeling and dealing that the prosecution labels racketeering and the defense calls Illinois politics as usual -- unsavory, perhaps, but hardly criminal.
Lawyers say Blagojevich won't testify at corruption trial
