Sentence examples for racketeering prosecution from inspiring English sources

The convictions were overturned three years later by an appellate judge who cast doubt on the legitimacy of the racketeering prosecution.

Greg Palast was the principal investigator and lead witness for the US Department of Justice in the civil racketeering prosecution of US nuclear plant builders in the 1980s. .

Two federal racketeering prosecutions in 2003 resulted in prison terms for most of the leadership and led to the appointment of a corruption monitor, George Stamboulidis, in 2009, to oversee Local 14.

In a letter to the University of Texas, Austin, Horner asks for any emails over a roughly 4-month period from or to Robert Dickinson, one of the letter's signers, containing the words "'RICO', racketeer, racketeering, DOJ, prosecute or prosecution".

But it extends to other areas of the law, like business claims under American antitrust, securities and racketeering laws and criminal prosecutions of foreign terrorists captured abroad.

Jimmy is Representative James A. Traficant Jr., the boisterous, pugnacious lawmaker who is about to be tried on racketeering charges in the centerpiece prosecution of one of the federal government's most extensive corruption investigations.

Sources say Alphonse Trucchio took over his father's crew after Ronnie One Arm was convicted of racketeering charges in two separate prosecutions in Florida and sentenced to life in prison three years ago.

The government built a racketeering case — the kind of legal prosecution that has dismantled many mob families — using interviews with cooperating members of MS-13, as well as a wiretap investigation during which the government obtained several recordings of the defendants conspiring to commit violent acts, and interviews with victims.

Asserting that boxing is a "dying sport that has lost the trust of people," the prosecution in the federal racketeering and bribery trial of the president and founder of the International Boxing Federation today laid much of the blame for that state of affairs on a scheme of bribes in exchange for favorable rankings and matchups that the defendants are accused of running.

The mob's biggest loss of sway, and overall earning power, has not been the result of criminal prosecutions but of civil racketeering statutes.

Massino was conspicuously absent from the prosecution witnesses at the 2006 racketeering trial of Basciano, the prosecution deciding he was not yet needed; he was also expected to testify against Vito Rizzuto regarding his role in the three capos murder, but the Montreal boss accepted a plea bargain in May 2007.