Sentences with phrase «on racketeer»

Not exact matches

«There was a certain labour racketeer who had grown rich on sweetheart contracts and illegal use of the union pension fund.

Shares in functional drink giant Yakult Honsha on Monday dropped sharply after a local weekend report that the Japanese beverage maker had paid off a suspected racketeer, reports Dow Jones.

McCain was one of the «Keating Five,» congressmen investigated on ethics charges for strenuously helping convicted racketeer Charles Keating after he gave them large campaign contributions and vacation trips.

Though he preaches a message of «radiant contentment» to his followers, Jones is actually a racketeer who hopes to get his hands on a $ 1,000,000 inheritance.

For, as his powers and spheres of influence expanded, he began directing his agents to spy not only on crooks and racketeers but on anyone he considered un-American, such as members of civil rights and anti-war organizations.

Whether or not that's an accurate overview of the first wave released in October 2008, which included the sub-Gilda noir exotica Affair in Trinidad with Glenn Ford and Rita Hayworth, the racketeer drama The Garment Jungle with Lee J. Cobb and Sidney Lumet's witty 1971 heist film The Anderson Tapes, it's a downright disingenuous appellation for at least some of the films released under that brand on DVD this week.

Here at Fiction Factory we just finished editing on RUNNING IN THE DARK, in which film scholar Glenn Erickson tells the fascinating story behind Jules Dassin's noir masterpiece NIGHT AND THE CITY (1950), starring Richard Widmark as an American low - life racketeer literally running out of luck in London.

As Emma experiences the historical events enveloping the city, she trains her perceptive eye on the people surrounding her: a newfound Cuban friend who joins the covert anti-Castro training brigade, a gambling racketeer who poses a grave threat to Paul, and a former madam, still in her twenties, who becomes both Emma's obsession and her alter ego.

The 19 eminent scientist who had co-written the dozen learned papers in the special issue had suggested — tell it not in Gath and Ashkelon — that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a racketeer - influenced criminal organization headquartered in Switzerland (which conveniently has no RICO statute...