racketeering

• Those were the necessary, everyday crimes of any revolution movement, crimes such as racketeering, theft of services, cross-border smuggling, subversion and sedition, product piracy, copyright infringement, money laundering, fake identities, squatting inside stolen property, illegal possession of firearms, and so forth Borislav and his various allies weren't charged with those many crimes. —  FSF,January2007
• Forays that eventually landed him in prison charged with insider trading, price manipulation, falsifying records, filing false reports, racketeering, and defrauding customers. —  EQMM, July2006
• Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009 | Former Cheetahs strip club owner Michael Galardi was released from house arrest in San Diego yesterday after serving 18 months for fraud and racketeering -- a year less than his original sentence. —  NEWS updates from www.voiceofsandiego.org
• For the past year-and-a-half, Wilson has been hearing about how the government, after spending more than a decade trying to build a drug-trafficking case against Torres, wants to define his grocery empire as a racketeering enterprise.
• The State Police said the 30 people arrested Tuesday morning face charges including racketeering, extortion, drug dealing and illegal firearms. —  Breaking News: CBS News

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