Sentence examples for racketeering is from inspiring English sources

One of the better comic riffs was that racketeering is like any other racket: profits dwindle, employees shirk their duties, and younger protégés don't know their place.

The practice Smithfield calls racketeering is, Ms. Mark-Viverito said, what others call lobbying.

A criminal trial against Mr. Aliyev on charges of abduction and racketeering is expected to begin within days.

Racketeering is the norm: one entrepreneur built his house on top of a buried oil pipeline, drilled into it and siphoned off quantities of fuel.

Mr. Pellicano, who is charged with racketeering, is accused of bribing police and telephone company workers to run illegal database checks and install illicit wiretaps to gain an edge in legal disputes.

Mr. Porges, while charged with racketeering, is accused mainly of directing his staff to concoct stories of past persecution on behalf of clients who were seeking asylum to remain legally in the United States.

Additional charges pertaining to corruption, fraud, and racketeering were later filed against Malema.

Under RICO, it is a crime for an individual to belong to an "enterprise" that is involved in a pattern of racketeering, even if the racketeering was committed by other members.

That piece of paper, which Mr. Calabro said was from Thomas Gioeli, a reputed mob boss who is on trial for murder and racketeering, was as good as a death warrant, Mr. Calabro said.

Mr Carruthers, who is facing charges of running an illegal betting operation and racketeering, was brought into Fort Worth's federal court in handcuffs which were unlocked while he faced the judge.

He rose in the ranks of a Lucchese family that was governed at the time by Gaitano, or Tommy, Lucchese, whose illicit businesses from gambling and loan-sharking to truck hijacking and labor racketeering were centered in the Bronx.