Word: racketeering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...almost as if he has a tennis racket in his hands," says John Moses, Seattle's first-base coach. "I'm gonna lob this one?and it's a blooper over the shortstop's head. I'm gonna ace this one?and it's a liner down the right field line. He's toying with guys, and there's nothing they can do about...
...reportedly in partnership with officers of the People's Liberation Army and the Public Security Bureau. They are into everything that pays: car theft, gambling, prostitution, kidnap for ransom and even, astonishingly, petrol. The bulk of the bribes received by convicted customs chief Zhao came from smuggling gasoline. The racket worked like this: a tanker anchors in international waters and waits for motor launches to gather round. An auction follows, and the buyers smuggle the fuel to shore in barrels to sell to the nearest state-run station, no import duty paid. "The whole of southern China is running...
...racket is proliferating so rapidly that alarmed FBI agents went public Thursday, well before they were ready to identify the bad guys and make arrests, to plead with e-tailers to fix the holes in their systems. "It's like walking down a row of stores, shaking the doorknobs and seeing which ones open up," says an agent in charge of the investigation...
...Information technology personnel at some companies ignored those warnings while they circulated mostly in the technical community. FBI officials are now trying to go over their heads to alert top managers to the threat of the new cyber-racket. As one agent put it, "We can't prevent bank robberies if you don't lock the doors...
...Controversy hasn't entirely escaped the new President. In October, when Estrada was accused of taking a cut of proceeds from an illegal gambling racket known as jueteng, Arroyo got loudly questioned about her own personal connection with Bong Pineda, an alleged provincial jueteng boss. Arroyo is godmother to one of Pineda's sons. She flatly denies any impropriety, saying she doesn't associate with Pineda or his crowd. "I don't drink with them," she tells Time. "I don't play mah-jongg with them." When she was asked to be godmother, she says she got counsel from Jaime...