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• n  engaging in a racket
• v  carry on illegal business activities involving crime

• speaking about himself in the third person, while serving as his own attorney during his spring 2008 racketeering trial (USA Today, May 1, 2008).
• Bobby Kennedy, as counsel to the Senate subcommittee investigating racketeering in the Teamsters, noticed Lowe's vivid and intimate pictures of the famous hearings and invited the .
• But the woman who brought the charges -- a friend of the dead starlet -- never testified in court because of a past record of extortion, racketeering and bigamy.

• racketeer

News & Articles

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• Bulger trial to feature surveillance video, photos
  BOSTON (AP) — Jurors at the racketeering trial of James "Whitey" Bulger can expect to see more surveillance video of the mobster meeting with various organized crime figures.
  June 13, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Opening statements begin in Boston racketeering trial of reputed gangster 'Whitey' Bulger
  BOSTON (AP) — Opening statements begin in Boston racketeering trial of reputed gangster 'Whitey' Bulger.
  June 12, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Opening statements begin in alleged Boston mobster Whitey Bulger's racketeering trial
  BOSTON — Opening statements have begun in the long-awaited racketeering trial of reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger in Boston. A federal prosecutor told jurors Wednesday that Bulger was at the center of "murder and mayhem" in Boston for almost 30 years. Bulger is accused of participating in 19 killings in the...
  June 12, 2013 - New York Post