A protection racket is a type of racket and a scheme of organized crime perpetrated by a potentially hazardous organized crime group that generally guarantees...
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Racketeering (redirect from Racket (crime))
The traditional and historically most common example of a racket is the "protection racket", in which racketeers offer to protect a business from robbery...
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Look up racket in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Racket may refer to: Racket (crime), a systematised element of organized crime Protection racket, a scheme...
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Protection Racket (22 February 1978 – after 1988) was an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He failed to win in three starts as a two-year-old...
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Extortion (redirect from Extortion racket)
Extortion is sometimes called the "protection racket" because the racketeers often phrase their demands as payment for "protection" from (real or hypothetical)...
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United Nations compared U.S. President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome to a protection racket after Trump said America’s northern neighbor must either pay $61 billion...
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important persons Protection racket, a criminal scheme involving exchanging money from "protection" against violence Right of asylum, protection for those seeking...
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FBI sting caught Davis enforcing a protection racket upon the city's cocaine dealers. Davis had extorted protection money from a drug dealer who was an...
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Bureau (CAB) who launched a Super Complaint into what it called the Protection Racket. When interest is charged on the premiums, the cost of a single premium...
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Bremen, partly also in Essen and Berlin. The organization is active in protection rackets, arms-, drug- and illegal medicine trafficking, as well as trafficking...
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dens, illegal money recovery, illegal land evictions, kidnapping, protection racket (hafta), contract killing (supari), distribution of narcotics and...
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extortion known as sōkaiya. In essence, this is a specialized form of protection racket. Instead of harassing small businesses, the Yakuza harass a stockholders'...
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garners unwanted attention from the Madrigal, whose thugs run the local protection racket, and Viv's ex-colleague Fennus, who suspects the true nature of the...
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Trapito is the Argentinian term for an extortionist who runs a protection racket in which they ostensibly guard parked cars, while actually vandalizing...
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Raymond Cassamayor, were arrested on federal charges of running a protection racket for illegal cocaine smugglers. At trial, a witness testified he routinely...
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was an Indian mafia leader and politician from Jharkhand. He ran a protection racket in Dhanbad and was a major financier for the Janata Party. In 1977...
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named Flik looks for "tough warriors" to save his ant colony from a protection racket run by a gang of grasshoppers. However, the "warriors" he brings back...
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2006 remaster bonus tracks No. Title Length 7. "The Great Universal Protection Racket" 11:24 8. "Dilemma" 5:14 9. "Death Warmed Up" (demo) 7:35 10. "Pushed...
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called the Real Calton Tongs. The Tongs financed themselves using a protection racket, levying money on shops within their territory, and they marked that...
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Abdullah and Omar Maute. The organization, which also conducted a protection racket operation in the municipality of Butig, clashes on several occasions...
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Global Custodian. 29 January 2019. Halah Touryalai (April 6, 2011). "Protection Racket," Forbes. "Madoff feeder fund administrator Citco Group reaches $125mln...
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command member of its Inner Council. He also ran a criminal large-scale protection racket from the West Belfast Shankill Road area, where he resided. Described...
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that the United States unintentionally and indirectly engaged in a protection racket and might be indirectly funding the very insurgents it is trying to...
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and companies offering DDoS protection to Minecraft servers, with the authors using Mirai to operate a protection racket. The source code for Mirai was...
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rogue a state as they come. It is a true mafia state, which has run a protection racket against South Korea and the outside world for decades, extorting billions...
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murdered several unwilling business owners who would not pay into his protection racket. Most met his demand to avoid the risk of becoming the target of his...
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officers claimed that converts did so to join an "organised gang" and a "protection racket" which "glorified terrorist behaviour and exploited the fear related...
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Mainly underage youth 12–17 years old Criminal activities Theft, murder, mobbing, robbery, racketeering, extortion, protection racket, drug trafficking...
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an extortionist in the form of a bribe, kickbacks, or payment to a protection racket or loan shark or even a blackmailer. Skimming at casinos is associated...
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States Emotional blackmail Extortion Intimidation Non-credible threat Protection racket Threat (computer) Throffer "threat". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed...
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