Word: extortionate
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The Gangsters. Finally, a grand jury launched an investigation which resulted in indictments of 15 A.F.L. leaders for racketeering. When the Justice Department's interest in continuing the investigation seemed to be waning, the P-D prodded the case to life again. A second grand jury went into action...
Eventually, when every garage contains its second car, the sores in the earth will heal, and the kiosk in the Square will be razed to make way for an electronic traffic cop with magnetic adenoids. For the present, however, the subway czars have added a touch of irony to their...
Newsday (circ. 190,151) won the prize for its campaign exposing corruption and graft at New York's trotting tracks (TIME, Oct. 19). Four years ago, Newsday Managing Editor Alan Hathway, an alumnus of the New York tabloid News, started hammering at the Roosevelt Raceway, about half a mile...
He had Sabino (who loftily denies all his allegations) in court on an extortion charge, and was trying to recover $20,000 of the money spent on life memberships.
When investigations of New York's brisk harness-racing industry developed evidence of payroll extortion and management payoffs to labor bosses and gambling racketeers, Sprague's name often popped up. He had owned a big slice of the Nassau Trotting Association, which operated Roosevelt Raceway. In 1946 he...