Word: racketeered
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...comfortable bank accounts in his wife's name. He controlled judges and cops. His friends ranged from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer, the "numbers" king. The vote was his bludgeon and his armor; when Prosecutor Tom Dewey came belling toward him up a trail of racket-busting evidence, Jimmy was unruffled...
...bellied, mysteriously prosperous police captain. Working with Cleveland prosecutors, Fritchey traced to Captain Cadek a fortune of $109,000 in Prohibition bootleggers' bribes. When the graft cleanup was over the captain and five other high-ranking cops were in prison, several others had lost their jobs. The cemetery racket was washed...
...thus convicted of crooked dealing this year passed the 1,000 mark. (The figure might be even higher if 890 accused doctors now in uniform had not been excused from answering charges.) The suspensions were the result of a State drive against one of the nation's richest rackets: the "kickback" racket that has netted unscrupulous New York insurance men, lawyers, physicians and X-ray laboratories as much as $5,000,000 a year...
...racket works: an injured workman is told by a "steerer" (usually a lawyer or insurance man) which doctor to go to; the doctor then pads his fees to double the normal amount (or, more often, by prolonging treatment unnecessarily) and sends a kickback to the steerer. If the doctor refers the patient to a specialist or an X-ray laboratory, he gets a second piece of dirty money when the specialist or laboratory pads fees in turn and kicks some back...
...racket is well known to New York's State and local medical societies, which pass on doctors' eligibility to treat workmen's compensation cases. But they did nothing about it until prodded by the Moreland Commission, sponsored and appointed by ex-racket-busting Governor Thomas E. Dewey...