Word: extortionate
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Recognizing the breadth of organized crime activity, drafters of RICO in 1970 sought to create matching law-enforcement breadth by focusing on patterns rather than instances of criminal behavior. Thus the law applies to those involved in an interstate "enterprise" that engages more than once in ten years in criminal...
Critics of RICO in the business community insist that Congress never intended the law to be used against legitimate enterprises. Yet a recent 15:35American Bar Association study found that only 9% of the civil RICO suits it sampled had allegations of typical Mob crimes, like arson, bribery or extortion...
While much of the report covers familiar ground--rehashing Justice Department evidence that organized crime runs unions for longshoremen, hotel and restaurant workers, teamsters and laborers--it goes on to show sleaze everywhere. "Throughout the economy," the commission states, "organized crime distorts costs through theft, extortion, bribery, price fixing and...
Henry Hill's specialties included arson, auto theft, bookmaking, bribery, drug dealing, horse-race fixing, credit-card fraud, extortion and freight hijacking. He organized the much publicized 1978-79 Boston College basketball point-shaving scheme and helped plan the $6 million Lufthansa holdup at New York City's Kennedy International...
Francesco Angiulo, 65, was found guilty on nine of 13 counts against him, including the racketeering charges, gambling and extortion. Donato Angiulo, 62, was found guilty on four of eight counts, including the racketeering charges, extortion and gambling. And Granito was found guilty on the three against him, the racketeering...