racketeers

Underpaid and barely-trained in law enforcement, Congolese police are better known as racketeers and guns for hire.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2006

Then, suddenly, a Brazilian restaurant owner pal of Kayankaya's is hit by protection racketeers, who rip off his thumb.

Unlikely gumshoe with grit Richard Lipez 2011

Not to discriminate, Giuliani said that he also believed in big payoffs to racketeers.

Think Progress » Giuliani: My ‘Warped View’ Is That Huge Wall Street Bonuses Are ‘Wonderful’ 2010

Sanctions will continue producing significant suffering among the Iranian people while racketeers in the Iranian government and military apparatus make a killing.

MJ Rosenberg: Predictions for 2012 MJ Rosenberg 2011

Prevent swiftly became a magnet for racketeers, a cash-cow for extremists and a textbook example of government overreach.

Britain's Islamist Split Douglas Murray 2011

He chose to court rather than confront the teacher unions and "the race racketeers" in Mr. Siegel's phrase like Rev.

'The New Tammany Hall' Matthew Kaminski 2011

Prevent swiftly became a magnet for racketeers, a cash-cow for extremists and a textbook example of government overreach.

Britain's Islamist Split Douglas Murray 2011

Then, suddenly, a Brazilian restaurant owner pal of Kayankaya's is hit by protection racketeers, who rip off his thumb.

Unlikely gumshoe with grit Richard Lipez 2011

Companies continue to hold their annual general meetings on the same few days in June, ostensibly to prevent organized crime racketeers from extorting money in return for not asking impertinent questions.

Japan's Corporate Olympus 2011

In contrast, the ethnic racketeers at the National Council of La Raza, for example, want more Mexican immigration because Mexicans are members of La Raza.

"Are Low-Skilled Americans the Master Race?" Flashback, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009