Sentence examples for protection racket from inspiring English sources

"It certainly smacks of a protection racket".

* Whitey Bulger ran a protection racket in Boston.

"The protection racket was their game," said Flanagan.

As for social media, "it feels like a protection racket.

Often it is just an anxiety state, another protection racket.

To its critics, it is a protection racket otherwise known as a patent troll.

Qias seemed to be talking about setting up a protection racket.

THE protection racket was one of the first businesses the Sicilian mafia entered into.

Officials tolerate private trade partly because they get a cut in effect running a protection racket.

Hence the howls of protest that it was running some kind of protection racket.

"It's just a straight, old-fashioned protection racket, with a completely new method".