racketeer
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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
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 Sainsbury, Noel
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