Sentences with word «racketeer»

The murder of one labor extortionist by members of a rival group of racketeers who wanted to share in the loot brought about exposure of the whole mess by a state investigating commission.

Adamowski is one of a number of racketeers running around posing as school reformers.

It was run by racketeers who used it as a front for gambling machines.

At the same time, a number of ex-convicts also had infiltrated stockholder lists and labor racketeers controlled the hiring of thousands of track employees, exacting kick - backs and managing union funds for their own benefit.

Japanese company Yakult Honsha, maker of the probiotic drink, saw its shares plummet today following a report that it had paid off a suspected racketeer.

He helps celebrate the town's anniversary while capturing racketeers involved with the local casinos.

What is quite bizarre is that they then invite the President and his Attorney - General to use a piece of legislation intended to deal with racketeers, known as RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act), to investigate corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America's response to climate change.

British director Carol Reed's tense tale of treachery set in post-war Vienna, The Third Man (1949), with the memorable character of black market racketeer Harry Lime (Orson Welles), ended with a climactic shootout in the city's noirish underground sewer.

And you have absolutely no idea what RICO is about; if you did, there would be a much larger push to tax the biggest racketeers of all: organized religion.

I was asked to speak to the seminarians about practical Christianity... when the Jewish, racketeer owner's grandchild was dying he came to me for prayer and counsel.

And yet, one group of alleged racketeers at Tema can deny us revenue of GH cents 1.2 billion,» he lamented.

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.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured a 6 - year jail term for a visa racketeer, Mr. Victor Charles Ndubueze.

Most of those have come in the kinds of cases traditionally pursued by the office: Against Al Qaeda terrorists, Wall Street ripoff artists, and Mafia racketeers.

«Separate the fight of these two evil monsters, two parties which are merely racketeers.

«Using concrete, however, put Donald at the mercy of a legion of concrete racketeers,» the investigative journalist Wayne Barrett wrote in «Trump: The Deals and the Downfall.»

and Europeans by racketeers prowling online dating sites..

Originally and imprudently titled The Whorehouse Sting, this fact - based, made - for - TV melodrama casts Beau Bridges as federal agent Frank Powell, who makes it his mission to bring slick but deadly racketeer Oliver Sully (Harold Gould) to justice.

In G Men, Warner Bros. «bad boy» James Cagney plays James «Brick» Davis, a young lawyer whose education has been financed by soft - hearted racketeer McKay (William Harrigan).

Framed cop Steve Rollins (Alan Ladd) takes revenge on racketeer Vic Amato (Edward G. Robinson), with enforcer Joe Lye (Paul Stewart) stuck in the middle.

Chili (Travolta again) wants to get out of the movie business, and when his friend Tommy (James Woods), a shonky music producer, is gunned down by a Russian protection racketeer (Alex Kubik) shortly after pitching the talents of a young singer named Linda Moon (Christina Milian), Chili realises he has found his new profession.

Now, however, the old racketeer's minions, headed by his smiling second - in - command, want to hold onto the land and prevent Roman from selling it.

Case in point: The Hollywood Reporter brings word that the actor is in talks to join the cast of Alita: Battle Angel as Vector, the villainous racketeer and fixer of Motorball games.

Bob Hoskins, in his breakthrough film role, stars as a London racketeer fast losing control of his gangland empire; Helen Mirren shines as his classy moll.

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.

He would sell his own children to benefit his corporate education reform racketeers.

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 nuclear war maniacs, the rabid antilabor crowd, the antidemocratic, profascist gangs, the professional anti-Semites, the anti-Communist racketeers — all now gravitate toward unity with the Southern racists, the KKK and similar groups.

Certainly, Peter Gleick should be offered a plea bargain deal if he rats out the other racketeers.

Mauro rifles through the closets of some of the short - listers and finds nunchakus, YouTube videos, Solomon - ic declarations, and anti-abortion racketeers.

Scopo was a powerful labor racketeer, and he used his position to extort money from cement contractors, which would then be divvied up between four mob families.

Redford plays Depression - era confidence trickster Johnny Hooker, whose friend and mentor Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones) is murdered by racketeer / gambler Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw).

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.

The Desert Inn was owned by Moe Dalitz, a one - time bootlegger and racketeer who was the most powerful figure in Las Vegas.

But 14a - 8 is still an enabler of racketeers.

Perhaps the image of a last waltz is too classy for a movement led by soundbiters, ad - men, and racketeers.

The litany of charges pervaded conservative magazines and talk shows: Clinton was a drug - dealer and racketeer; he had purloined FBI files and organized death squads; he was guilty of fraud, theft and serial adultery; he raped at least one woman and arranged the murder of friend and staff member Vince Foster.

Pastors of these churches of course became managers and stewards of whatever cohesive, unifying forces remained (apart from the racketeers» brass knuckles and the policeman's stun - gun), and therefore they of course held the key to whatever latent legitimate popular power remained in the burgeoning slum.

During the May 2000 local elections, the then Tory leader declared that racketeers were «flooding the country» with bogus asylum seekers.

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Like most gangsters (fictional Gangster definition, a member of a gang of criminals, especially a racketeer.

Gangster definition, a member of a gang of criminals, especially a racketeer.

Although he has, up to that point managed to evade arrest, the racketeer finally meets his match and is arrested.

In this drama, a racketeer, after having been tossed out of other towns, comes to a new one to set up his shady operations.

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.