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But the paper carries this rejoinder from an ACLU staffer: "The Constitution has never been found to protect extortion: someone saying they'll break your windows every day or someone stationing a thug outside your business."
Because of its committed, disciplined rank and file and economic base in extortion, the Mafia emerged as the dominant organized-crime group to survive Prohibition's repeal.
In addition, starting in the early '80s federal prosecutors have used the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), passed in 1970, to charge top mob bosses with extortion.
For instance, its biggest extortion schemes in the New York area have been broken up: It no longer controls wholesale food (the City Council broke its hold on Fulton Fish Market) or Long Island's garbage-removal cartel.
' " Weld also has claimed to be a victim of Helms' "ideological extortion."