to racketeer
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- verb
- /ˌrækɪˈtɪr/
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extorsionar
- After years of operating illegally, the group was finally caught racketeering through a network of fake businesses.
- racketeering conspiracy
- racketeering trial
- racketeering enterprise
Examples
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The authorities launched an investigation into the company for allegedly racketeering and defrauding customers.
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The police arrested several individuals who had been racketeering in the local gambling scene.
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It's racketeering.
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He the one that said he's with those racketeering sons of bitches.
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That's not democracy or representative government; that's racketeering, the third rail of American politics.
Blog text (22) -
The Rev. Henry Lyons' racketeering trial this month will test how the race and religion cards play to juries.
Academic text (2000) -
It is not a joint-racketeering enterprise between politicians and special-interest groups; however, it is a solo-racketeering enterprise.
Academic text (1997) -
A federal district court dismissed all counts, and Williams appealed some of the dismissals to the 7th Circuit, although not the racketeering dismissal.
Academic text (2004) -
Instead of going after groups that are actually racketeering, if the feds ever did this to begin with, they are now attempting to connect a bunch of individual crimes in order to create the appearance of a pattern of racketeering to said group.
Blog text (10) -
Charles Lazaro, you're hereby served to appear as a witness in the racketeering trial of Freddie Marcuso.
Compounds
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United States law from 1970 used to fight organized crime by giving stronger punishments
How Illegal
Surface Forms
Etymology
The verb racketeer comes from the same slang racket ('a dishonest scheme') and the ending -eer, as in engineer. So to racketeer is to run or take part in such illegal schemes to get money by threats, cheating, or other wrong acts.