racketeer

The Global New Light of Myanmar said the Yatai firm of Chinese-Cambodian alleged racketeer She Zhijiang was "the entity involved" in running the Shwe Kokko area.

From Barron's ● Nov. 19, 2025

Browner, Chambers and Lesley Chappell Green, 35, of Stone Mountain were all convicted of racketeer influenced and corrupt organization conspiracy.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

There is no evidence Butler gained materially from being “a racketeer for capitalism” — his words — who “helped rape a half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2022

Gerald Shur was 15 when he first met a mobster, a bodyguard for a racketeer seeking to intimidate his father, a dressmaker in New York City’s garment district.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 2, 2020

The Steve Ravick story was finished; that is, the local story of racketeer rule in the Hunters' Co-operative.

From Four-Day Planet by Piper, H. Beam

At the Jardines de Humaya cemetery, final resting place of many racketeers and their families, multi-story mausoleums feature balconies, air conditioning and ornate chapels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024

“They were adjudicated as racketeers — held in the same regard as gangsters,” said Sharon Eubanks, the former U.S. attorney who led the case.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2021

“He was a fighter of social injustice, taking on corrupt politicians and racketeers preying on the common man.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2018

Brewer-Giorgio, now 78, said the FBI enlisted Presley as an undercover agent in 1976 to help the agency infiltrate a criminal organization called “The Fraternity,” which was apparently made up of dozens of racketeers.

From Time ● Aug. 15, 2017

And the fact that I was “the young Brother Baldwin” increased my value with those same pimps and racketeers who had helped to stampede me into the church in the first place.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

In 36 years in Chicago, I have never been held up, robbed or racketeered.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Guo was later convicted on charges of racketeering, fraud and money laundering.

From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026

A federal judge on Monday sentenced China critic and tycoon Guo Wengui to 30 years in prison for racketeering and fraud, and ordered forfeiture of $889 million associated with his activities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Johnson was imprisoned late last year for contempt of court after being found civilly liable for $71 million in damages in a civil racketeering case.

From Slate ● May 28, 2026

Thales, formerly known as Thomson-CSF, and Zuma face more than a dozen charges of fraud, corruption and racketeering.

From Barron's ● May 14, 2026

They were mostly in for white-collar crimes, money schemes, fraud and racketeering.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah