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    The Racketeer is a 1929 American Pre-Code drama film. Directed by Howard Higgin, the film is also known as Love's Conquest in the United Kingdom. It tells...
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    The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil...
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  • Racketeering (redirect from Racketeer)
    the racket. However, racketeers may also sometimes offer an ostensibly effectual service outside of the law to solve an actual existing problem. The traditional...
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  • Racketeer Rabbit is a 1946 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng. The short was released on September 14, 1946, and features Bugs...
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  • The Racketeer is a legal thriller novel written by John Grisham that was released on October 23, 2012 by Doubleday with an initial printing of 1.5 million...
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    The Georgia RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act is a law in the U.S. state of Georgia that makes a form of racketeering a felony...
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  • Racketeers of the Range is a 1939 American Western film directed by D. Ross Lederman from a screenplay by Oliver Drake, based on Bernard McConville's...
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  • The Mafia Encyclopedia. New York: Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8160-5694-3 Bawdy Boston, Time "Cabaret Gunmen Kill 'King' Solomon; Boston Racketeer Is...
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  • Western Racketeers is a 1934 American western film directed by Robert J. Horner and starring Bill Cody, Edna Aslin and Hal Taliaferro It was an independent...
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  • Madame Racketeer is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy film featuring Alison Skipworth, Richard Bennett and George Raft. The movie was directed by Harry Wagstaff...
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  • Elbow Bones and the Racketeers was an American big band-era styled male/female vocal group, created by August Darnell, and best known for their hit single...
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  • Rhythm Racketeer is a 1937 British musical film directed by James Seymour and starring Harry Roy, Princess Pearl and James Carew. It was made at Rock...
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  • Rubber Racketeers is a 1942 American crime film directed by Harold Young and starring Ricardo Cortez and Rochelle Hudson. The film was inspired by tire...
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  • Racketeers in Exile is a 1937 American crime film directed by Erle C. Kenton and starring George Bancroft, Evelyn Venable and Wynne Gibson. George Bancroft...
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    Arnold Rothstein (category 1928 murders in the United States)
    November 6, 1928), nicknamed "The Brain", was an American racketeer, crime boss, businessman, and gambler who became a kingpin of the Jewish Mob in New York...
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    intelligence on racketeers. After the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, for RICO Act, took effect, the FBI began investigating the former...
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  • attacks on the targets, and usually both of these forms of protection are implied in the racket. Due to the frequent implication that the racketeers may contribute...
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  • Sea Racketeers is a 1937 American film directed by Hamilton MacFadden and starring Weldon Heyburn, Jeanne Madden, and Warren Hymer. Weldon Heyburn as Chief...
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  • Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Jacob Drucker and Irving Cohen were put on trial separately for the murder of racketeer Walter Sage in the Catskills...
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  • James Coonan (category People convicted of murder by the United States federal government)
    21, 1946) is an Irish-American mobster and racketeer from Manhattan, New York who served as the boss of the Westies gang, an Irish mob group based in Hell's...
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  • gangsters in the 1946 film Racketeer Rabbit, written by Michael Maltese. In the film, Bugs decides to find himself a new home, but the one he chooses...
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    YSL Records racketeering trial (category Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act)
    Records). The trial began on November 27, 2023, following a May 2022 indictment that charged 28 individuals associated with YSL under Georgia's Racketeer Influenced...
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    Family Secrets, which indicted 14 Outfit members and associates under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), including Joseph Lombardo...
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  • Dutch Schultz (category 1935 murders in the United States)
    in New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. He made his fortune in organized crime-related activities, including bootlegging and the numbers racket. Schultz's...
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    employed and mentored by fellow racketeer Frankie Yale, a bartender in a Coney Island dance hall and saloon called the Harvard Inn. Capone inadvertently...
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  • Orgen, New York gangster and labor union racketeer The first barrel murders are discovered in New York. The Unione Siciliana, a fraternal organization...
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  • a list of Adventures of Superman episodes. The first two seasons, comprising 52 episodes and half of the series' whole, were filmed in black and white...
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  • leader Lupo the Wolf. However, none are convicted as many of the notes of extortion threats cannot be traced to them. Chicago racketeer James "Big Jim"...
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  • title was inspired by the 1939 book The Big Sleep, and its 1946 film adaptation, also a Warner release. Bugs and Elmer are in the midst of their usual...
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  • January 28, 1939), also known under the alias Danny Field, was a New York mobster and an associate of labor racketeer Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. He later...
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