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

“This is a big town now,” Marlowe says to Eddie Mars, a gambling racketeer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024

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

If we haven’t dropped into the winter hangout of some Chicago beer baron or New York racketeer, I’m a ground hog!”

From Bill Bolton?Flying Midshipman by Noel Sainsbury

After World War II especially, racketeers moved in on the popularity of restaurants and nightclubs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2021

In 1965, Mr. Cohen called Long’s claims “overblown,” insisting that the wiretaps were chiefly focused on racketeers attempting to bribe IRS personnel.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2018

“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

A Singaporean man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a racketeering conspiracy charge in the US for organising one of the biggest ever cryptocurrency thefts.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Jurors cleared Combs of racketeering and sex trafficking charges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 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

Under the first, he wrote RICO, a reference to the racketeering law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 20, 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