Sentences with phrase «racketeers who»

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

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.

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.

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Is there anyone who remembers, among church - going profiteers and racketeers, insatiable sexists, alcoholics, torturers, and myriad murderers of human rights - any of the exploiting respectables who remembers the story of Cain and Abel and the piteous words: The voice of thy brothers blood crieth unto me from the ground.

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.

Set in the depression era of 1930's Chicago, it stars Robert Redford who plays depression - era trickster Johnny Hooker, whose friend and mentor Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones, who is the brother of famed actor James Earl Jones) is murdered by racketeer / gambler Doyle Lonnegan (Robert Shaw).

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...