Word: racketeer
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...THIS SOME KIND OF PROTECTION RACKET...
...there was white noise in the courtroom, though, there was a real racket in the jury room. The first day, we instituted a policy of standing before speaking, because we were talking over one another. The stand-and-speak policy was only partly effective. Yet, slowly and surely, we did make progress by focusing especially on the bonuses and on a $20 million payment that the defendants made to a fellow director (Frank Walsh) without informing the rest of the board for six months...
...kids, the racket starts in the cradle. A squeaky toy held close to the ear--which is precisely where babies may put them--can reach 94 db. A toy xylophone can ring in at 92 db. And since babies' ear canals are so small, a sound that gets in them may knock around harder than it does in an adult's ears and do commensurately more damage. When these battered baby ears make it to high school they only suffer more abuse as kids start listening to music at full volume and going to dance clubs where wall-to-wall...
...caper, in which FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone infiltrated the gang and spent five years posing as a hoodlum named Brasco and, with his court testimony, helped send 200 Mob men to prison. Already reeling from the Pizza Connection prosecutions (after a bust that exposed a giant heroin distribution racket run from pizza parlors), the Bonannos were thrown off the Five Families commission and left for dead. With brains and muscle, Massino restored the clan to its old strength. And "Big Joey" (his weight was once nearly 400 lbs.) did it on the street, not in the stir, where...
...sweets on his truck," says ex-FBI agent Colgan. Government witnesses at his '87 trial said Massino fenced merchandise, from Kodak cameras to electric appliances, that workers stole from the platforms and loaded onto his truck. By the '70s, he had allegedly expanded his operation into a truck-hijacking racket. With connections at airports and on the waterfront, say feds, he and his crew would flag down trucks, usually prearranged "give-ups" with the O.K. of the drivers. He once scored 2,000 cases of Chicken of the Sea, another time 500 cartons of Mitsubishi sneakers...