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racketeer

[rak-i-teer] / ˌræk ɪˈtɪər /
NOUN
gangster
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NOUN
crook
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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

Beacon pbo 1955, released 1959 Evening waster about a racketeer who specializes in quick divorces, and his girlfriend who flirts with all the women as he disengages them from their husbands.

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Mr. Civiletti was known for prosecuting racketeers, public corruption, white-collar crime and drug trafficking.

From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2022

A country bumpkin-turned-baseball player foils crooked pitchers and racketeers conspiring to fix the World Series.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2019

With FBI agents posing as officials in the company, and eventually as sheikhs, the group swept up mid-level racketeers until receiving an introduction to Angelo Errichetti, the well-connected mayor of Camden, N.J.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 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

Jurors cleared Combs of racketeering and sex trafficking charges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026

Under his plea deal with US authorities, Zambada faced a mandatory minimum term of life imprisonment without parole on a racketeering charge.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 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

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


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