racketeering

This is likely to lead to criminal racketeering charges.

In addition, the Task Force Against Cultural Racketeering, consisting of government representatives from each country, will hold its inaugural meeting to finalize an action plan for the upcoming year on specific actions to be taken in this joint effort.

According to her, the municipality has taken the measures to prevent racketeering incidents in schools and has involved the psychologists into the work.

BOSTON -- Jurors in the racketeering trial of James ''Whitey'' Bulger finished their second day of deliberations Wednesday without reaching a verdict, but the day was filled with drama as prosecutors and Bulger's lawyers huddled with the judge and the jury asked a series of legal questions about the heart of the case against the reputed crime boss.

All entered not guilty pleas after being arraigned in Lane County Circuit Court on a 103-count poaching and racketeering indictment handed down April 18 by a Lane County grand jury.

For the third time in the past 12 months, a judge declared a mistrial yesterday in the racketeering trial of former mob boss John A Junior Gotti.

THE racketeering trial of the son of an infamous New York Mafia boss was interrupted yesterday - so he could sing Happy Birthday to the judge.

More than 24 other members were arrested on racketeering charges in New York.

Martin Smyth, MP for South Belfast, said loyalist and republican 'Mafioso' racketeering and extortion was being carried out in the name of the Queen or Ireland.

In addition to duplicating state law, Congress has created derivative offenses, such as racketeering and mall fraud, an approach that makes convictions easier to obtain because the offense consists mainly of otherwise innocuous behavior.