Sentence examples for collected protection from inspiring English sources

They organized meetings, collected protection money and kept track of who was working with the police.

A newspaper seller says the police collected protection money and bribes and left them with him until the end of their shift.

At the time, they were not the notorious gangsters they were to become, but former boxers who ran nightclubs and collected protection money from people in awe of their reputation as a two-headed fighting machine.

At the next level down the FSB, interior ministry and police collect protection money from businesses, licit and illicit.

This involves collecting protection money from small businesses – known in italian as il pizzo – to running fake companies that launder the 'Ndrangheta's ill-gotten funds.

According to the Mexico City daily El Universal, the drivers collect protection money from businessmen and shopkeepers, and fine other drivers for speeding or running through a red light.

The guerrillas also collect protection money from local businesses, ranchers and fishing camps along some parts of Venezuela's long border with Colombia.

At the behest of the Ohio Gang, he also began blackmailing known bootleggers, from whom he would collect protection money at the Vanderbilt Hotel in New York City.

In Amagasaki City, just east of here, and in the Kobe district of Suma, citizens groups closed down the offices of yakuza gangs that tried to collect protection fees and extort money from businesses and residents.

In addition, Mr. Shinka said, under a recently approved anti-mob law, the police issued 170 "stop orders" to yakuza members who tried to collect protection money or force individuals to pay debts through intimidation.

The militia employs the crippled and the poor to collect protection money, controls a black market for fuel, and forcibly recruits young men into its ranks as lookouts against the Americans.