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How to use racketeer in a sentence

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James Cagney plays Patsy Gargan, a two-bit racketeer who is awarded a post as deputy commissioner of a boys reform school as a political payoff.
Like Harry Lime, the penicillin-diluting racketeer he plays in the film, Welles infects The Third Man from opening titles to closing credits.
The insufficiently nourished racketeer will start looking for another person to racket.
Both Alcatraz Island and The Last Gangster told the story of a racketeer sent to the Rock on tax evasion charges who learns the hard way that this isn't any old hoosegow.
Third, we must employ the U. S. racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act amendments.
Mr. Duffy, it happened, was Big Bill Duffy, a jolly henchman of Owney Madden, the racketeer.
He could, however, be a racketeer specializing in bookmaking, gambling, drug dealing, and assorted other crime.
FĂ©lix tries to disguise his gradual transformation into a small-time racketeer, happily yet barely scratching out a living.
All My Sons, the story of a war hero who comes home to find that his father is a munitions racketeer, reflected the disillusion of postwar America.
Each of these transactions is a symbiotic appeal and the racketeer who 'appeals' will engage in a symbiotic relationship with the person who responds in a complementary role.
Like some seedy racketeer, the delinquents in Pyongyang had extorted a generous payment in exchange for talks about giving up their pursuit of nuclear weapons.
However, the racketeer is not simply an imaginary figure concocted by anti-union forces.
And someone they call a businessman is what we call a racketeer.
The racketeer formerly belonged to a syndicated crime group but became independent after working under a senior extortionist, and did not hold any JAL shares, police said.
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act were insufficient as a matter of law to prevail against Tenet in this case, Seitz said.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the enactment of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
Examples from Classical Literature
He was a raider, a racketeer, not a leader of purposeful men.
Her racketeer sweetie has a long arm, however, and Nita gets hers.
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