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
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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A country bumpkin-turned-baseball player foils crooked pitchers and racketeers conspiring to fix the World Series.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2019
“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 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
Mastro pioneered civil racketeering cases that targeted mobbed-up unions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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
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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