Example sentences for: organized-crime

How can you use “organized-crime” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • 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.

  • The head of the FBI's organized-crime unit estimates that 10 percent of America's active Mafia soldiers are now locked up.

  • The chief of the Justice Department's organized-crime section recommended in a memo that she "avoid direct contact with Coia, if possible."

  • In addition, many predict the Russian mob, operating out of Brooklyn, will soon replace the Mafia as New York City's largest organized-crime outfit.

  • In the 1930s, the mobsters Meyer Lansky and "Lucky" Luciano set up a national crime syndicate--a board of the most powerful organized-crime chiefs to mediate disputes and plan schemes.


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