Word: racketeered
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...into the islands. Much of the $2½ billion U.S. postwar aid was in the form of surplus military property. Distribution of this property became a gigantic swindle. I asked a businessman what he was doing. He answered with candid cynicism: "Last year I was in the surplus property racket, and this year I am taking life easy...
...Newspapers just have to keep hitting and hitting at these guys if we're going to get rid of them," said Fingold. One of the State's leading racket-busters, he recently testified before a Senate subcommittee on nation-wide crime syndicates...
...recent years the most lucrative telephone racket has been to uncover the wires leading to the phone and touch a quarter to both wires simultaneously. One ex-freshman admitted making a free call to Boulder City, Nevada, by making contact with the quarter 25 times in rapid succession...
...Boston Traveler commented in July of 1948 that "George Fingold, Assistant Attorney-General who headed the Revere scandal probe, merits commendation for public service. The racket-buster might be called a born lawyer...
Former County Assessor George Clark, Binaggio's political ally, had carried on a tax-fixing racket, said the grand jury, which described it as "the most sordid and vicious situation existing in Jackson County." Tens of thousands of dollars were extorted by threatening to jack up the taxes of legitimate businessmen, or jacking them up and offering to lower them for a fee. "One arrogant racketeer, feeling that a prominent businessman had not been polite to him, had the businessman's real-estate assessment tripled." When the businessman apologized and let the racketeer open a charge account...