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Prosecutors accuse him and colleagues of racketeering by facilitating the widespread illegal downloading of songs and movies.

Mr. Traficant is accused of years of racketeering by soliciting bribes from executives in return for government favors.

Claims by growers that they were victims of racketeering by the DuPont Company when they settled crop damage claims were discarded by a federal judge today in a legal victory for the chemical maker.

The complaint, which seeks to recover billions of government dollars spent treating sick smokers, accuses tobacco companies of racketeering by conspiring over decades to hide the risks of smoking.

Lewis D. Schiliro, the head of the New York office of the F.B.I., is to retire next month after a 25-year-career in which he oversaw investigations ranging from racketeering by Mafia figures on the streets of Little Italy to terrorist attacks on United States citizens around the world.

She wrote a clear statement, appealed fruitlessly by tobacco companies: The First Amendment Does Not Protect Defendants Falsee and Misleading Public Statements The attorneys general investigating Exxon have a strong case that the fossil fuel industry is similarly guilty of racketeering by deceiving the public in order to maximize profits.

Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse created a stir recently when he speculated that fossil fuel companies may be violating federal racketeering law by colluding to defraud the public about the threat posed by carbon pollution.

"Racketeering cases by their nature are so huge and complicated.

Moreover, the states have begun maintaining that the tobacco settlement was not intended to reimburse them for their Medicaid expenses but instead resolved claims of antitrust, consumer fraud and racketeering violations by the companies.

Judge John W. Bissell of Federal District Court in Newark pronounced the organization free of the kind of corruption that had made it the first private sports organization to be treated as a racketeering enterprise by federal prosecutors and courts.

A little over a year ago DJ Drama, one of hip-hop's top mixtape D.J.'s, was arrested on racketeering charges by officers working in cooperation with the Recording Industry Association of America.