Example sentences for: racketeering

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

  • agree that the main reason Schultz was killed was because he'd recklessly threatened to rub out special prosecutor Thomas Dewey, who was after him for tax evasion and racketeering.

  • What is surprising is the temerity of running an article titled "The Clintons and the Mob" when the "mobster" in question has neither been convicted of nor indicted for racketeering.

  • Early last year, the Justice Department allowed Coia to oversee a massive cleanup of his union, rather than filing a racketeering lawsuit, removing Coia, and putting the union under government control.

  • USA Today and the Washington Post lead with a Chicago jury's finding in a lawsuit brought by NOW that anti-abortion groups violated federal racketeering laws by conspiring to close abortion clinics through violence, and hence could be subject to damage claims.

  • Luis Felipe, the Latin Kings leader convicted of murder and racketeering, is about to join Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, and Unabomber Ted Kaczynski for conversation in the exercise yard at the federal "Super Max" prison in Florence, Colo.


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