Word: extortionate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lest the public think that the racketeers are mellowing, the crime commission warned: "In whatever activity organized crime engages, legitimate or illicit, its method of operation is the same-the maintenance of a monopoly through extortion and violence or imposing the fear of violence." Added Commission Vice Chairman Daniel Walker...
In this flat-footed travelogue of Gangland, 1929, Capone is champion of bootlegging, extortion and all other racket sports. The simple art of murder has placed him at the top alone-until George ("Bugs") Moran begins muscling in on Chicago's North Side. "I want that son of a...
In Chicago, the Blackstone Rangers also create another sort of dilemma. On one hand they are the terroristic street gang. Police estimate the Rangers are responsible for twenty to twenty-five shootings a month. Their extortion fund produces literally thousands of dollars in bail money each month. Hardly a day...
The Manhattan district attorney's office calls Harold ("Kayo") Konigsberg "one of the biggest loan sharks in the country," but Kayo deserves more notoriety than that. Singlehanded, with consummate gall, he has been carrying on a blatant attempt to make a travesty of U.S. criminal justice. When he went...
A number of questions need to be pursued. What market characteristics determine whether a criminal activity becomes "organized"? Gambling, by all accounts, invites organization while abortion, by all accounts, does not. In the upper-world automobile manufacture is characterized by large firms, machine tool production is not; collusive price-fixing...