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Example sentences for: racketeering

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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.
It turns out that both Sobel and Vitti are staggering under the legacy of powerful fathers, giants in their fields of psychoanalysis and racketeering, respectively.
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.
Henry Lyons resigned as president of the largest black American religious body, the National Baptist Convention USA . He had been convicted of racketeering and grand theft for 1) selling bogus membership lists to companies that sought access to black consumers; and 2) stealing donations intended to rebuild burned black churches.
It's also noted that the civil filing, despite its appeal to a racketeering statute, marks the end of the government's attempt to bring criminal charges against the tobacco companies.