racketeer
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An alleged Chinese racketeer linked to a hugely lucrative scam hub in Myanmar was extradited from Thailand to China on Wednesday, a police official in Bangkok told AFP.
From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 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
The papers are all saying now that she got $10,000 for double-crossing some awful racketeer named 'Swallow-tail Sammy', but I know she didn't get the money that way!
From Murder at Bridge by Anne Austin
Mr. Civiletti was known for prosecuting racketeers, public corruption, white-collar crime and drug trafficking.
From New York Times ● Oct. 17, 2022
After World War II especially, racketeers moved in on the popularity of restaurants and nightclubs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2021
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 rugby union, in the face of such rapacious man-merchants as the sun king’s racketeers declared itself professional.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2015
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
Under Mitchell, Pecora showed, the nation’s largest bank had become an impeccably groomed racketeering enterprise, dressing up crooked enterprises as gilt-edged to sell their bonds and stocks to unsuspecting buyers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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
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