Sentences with word «loansharking»
«From loansharking and illegal gambling, to credit card and health care fraud, and even firearms trafficking, today's mafia is fully diversified in its boundless search for illegal profits,» Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement.
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«From loansharking and illegal gambling, to credit card and health care fraud, and even firearms trafficking, today's mafia is fully diversified in its boundless search for illegal profits.
He explained that the myth originated in the 1930s and 1940s after the American mafia shifted from bootlegging during prohibition to other illicit ventures like drug trafficking and loansharking, and began infiltrating labor unions, and legitimate industries such as textiles and construction.
«As long as the three pillars of organized crime exist — sports gambling, extortion, and loansharking — there's no reason to believe that [the mafia] would ever go away.»
Chili soon discovers that loansharking was the perfect training ground for making movies... though you have to be ruthless to make it in Hollywood.
Chili soon discovers that loansharking was...
We don't know all the details of his criminal enterprise — which runs the gamut from «no work» construction jobs and HUD scams to traditional mafia jobs like bookmaking and loansharking — so let's just call this one racketeering.