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Examples of racketeer
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Peter Flood, the hero, is a labor racketeer because that is the family business.
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Racketeer returned $11.40 and $5.40, while the show payoff on Delta Storm was $4.
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The first person to pay him attention was a local racketeer, supervising his turf.
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The racketeer was implicated in at least 30 murders, according to the FBI.
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Martin Scorsese directed the pilot, which stars Steve Buscemi as a powerful racketeer.
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The Bowery Boys expose a racketeer who uses young boys in a car-theft ring.
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A torch singer and an adventurer join forces in a tropical port city to trap a racketeer.
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Casper Holstein was a numbers racketeer who made a fortune in New York's Harlem neighborhoods.
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A racketeer and an aged squire are among the competitors for the affections of a desirable young woman.
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- Carry on illegal business activities involving crime
- Someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion)
- (racketeering) engaging in a racket
- The Racketeer is a 1929 American film directed by Howard Higgin.
- One who commits crimes (especially fraud, bribery, loansharking, extortion etc.) to aid in running a shady or illegal business; one who instigates or has involvement with a racket; to carry out illegal business activities or criminal schemes; to commit crimes systematically as part of a criminal ...
- (racketeering) n. the federal crime of conspiring to organize to commit crimes, particularly as a regular business ("organized crime" or "the Mafia").
- (Racketeering) A term referring to the act of committing several crimes, usually criminal gambling, extortion, bribery and loan-sharking.
- (racketeers) people who obtain money illegally, as by bootlegging, fraud, or, especially, extortion. Here, Lou Epstein uses the term in reference to the bad people he sees affiliated with boxing.
- A person who obtains money illegally by fraud, bootlegging, gambling, or threats of violence.
