| He idolised prize-fighters, regarded racketeers as his friends and loved money though he had difficulty holding on to it. |
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| Murderers and convicted racketeers will no longer be permitted to drive hazardous materials on the nation's interstates. |
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| The area is closely monitored by the police so there is no chance for dealers, pimps and protection racketeers to move in. |
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| Years of sanctions have left behind an economy dominated by racketeers and smugglers. |
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| It's worth remembering that it's not only the obvious racketeers who are guilty of enticing people to run up debts they can't afford. |
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| The film makes it clear that this miserable combination of time and place provides endless opportunities for racketeers. |
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| They are vulnerable to racketeers, and their children are permanent targets for kidnappers. |
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| The coup organisers are a group of public school boys and financial racketeers who have grabbed fabulous wealth through their arms deals. |
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| Liam shows himself quite adept at the drug business, and eventually attracts the notice of local racketeers. |
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| You see, before I was a journalist, I worked for a living as an investigator of corporate racketeers. |
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| In the United States a law against mob racketeers has been misapplied in all sorts of spheres, including throughout the securities industry. |
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| A true oddity, it's a film about some twisted racketeers involved with a travelling carnival. |
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| They are the cyber-era equivalents of highwaymen, sharks, cheesy protection racketeers. |
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| Surely, the newfound cooperation of dockside racketeers had a chilling effect on German espionage. |
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| In effect, Colombian racketeers have successfully managed to penetrate and profit from the latest trend in the North American illegal drug market. |
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| In my opinion, if the Government bans begging, the racketeers would nullify it by using their contacts with the political parties to overcome the ban. |
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| It featured some striking visual images, and Graham Greene's story, set against a background of racetrack racketeers, offers intriguing pre-echoes of Brighton Rock. |
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| How do you propose to prevent racketeers from cheating people with their own particular forms of currency exchange? |
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| Periodic audits of measurement accuracy are not enough to protect Canadians from such racketeers. |
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| Lansky saw the change coming and, like all gifted racketeers, tried to cut a deal with the new sheriff. |
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| There is no cleaning up of numbers games, bookies, illegal gambling rackets or underground black market racketeers. |
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| The value of a patent is highest to those profiteers and racketeers if it is very broad. |
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| The two racketeers, the pupil and the professor will both obtain positive benefits. |
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| It is, however, a very undesirable aspect of the patent system that it works better for non-producing racketeers than for truly innovative companies that create actual products. |
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| More serious, in terms of its political implications for dividing and demoralising the movement, was the intrusion en masse of gangs of young racketeers from some of the working class estates in the Paris region. |
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| Cutting deals with labour racketeers effectively allowed these employers to circumvent prohibitions against the formation of company unions. |
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| New York City in the early 1930s was mired in the depths of the Depression and gangsters and racketeers ran the city. |
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| I thought racketeers were the ones who broke bones, not the ones who mended them. |
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| If they are right, the nexus between racketeers, bookmakers and greedy cricketers, exposed in 2000 in one of the biggest scandals in modern sport, remains in place. |
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| The availability of huge sums of cash and the incentive to control political action result in gamblers and racketeers too often taking part in government. |
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| Silvana Fucino was designated as one of the European heroes by the newspaper Time in 2005: in 2004 the mafia burned her family company, but she managed to indict the racketeers and 15 of them were sent to jail. |
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| Ugaz's achievements were impressive, especially in the first year: most of the 'big fish' were captured and the process began of repatriating the enormous sums stolen by the racketeers at the heart of Fujimori's government. |
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| What practical measures will the Commission take to deal radically with the problem of doping, its causes and the associated racketeers in order to develop and promote sport as a popular and inclusive activity for all? |
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| She distinguishes two types of racketeers. |
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| Not yet alas, but my dear friends, how do they do it, how do they work, these honest operators that I consider as heroes or these racketeers that build their enormous fortunes on the backs of under-paid Congolese workers! |
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| A CREW working on a huge pounds 10m comedy film about terror on Belfast's peacelines have been targeted by ruthless loyalist paramilitary racketeers. |
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| Racketeers will change names and addresses while counting their cash. |
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