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  • Organized Crime
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...turned to new avenues of profitable crime, such as labor racketeering, gambling, and narcotics traffic. The Syndicate The era...committee was the aura of respectability achieved by top racketeers who, by removing themselves from direct contact with criminal...
     
  • Spitzer, Eliot Laurence
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...York State district attorney for Manhattan and earning a reputation for crime-fighting, especially for his prosecution of racketeers and corruption in the trucking industry. He ran unsuccessfully for state attorney general in 1994, but was elected to the...
     
  • Mafia
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...trade in narcotics, gambling, prostitution, labor union racketeering and certain legal enterprises, such as trucking and construction...defections. While slowing its activities in extortion and racketeering in the 1980s and 90s, the contemporary Mafia has expanded...
     
  • Milken, Michael Robert
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...indicted Milken for violations of federal securities and racketeering laws. He pled guilty to securities fraud and related charges...government dropped the more serious charges of insider trading and racketeering. Milken was fined and sentenced to prison for ten years...
     
  • Noriega, Manuel Antonio
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Noriega was captured and brought to the United States to stand trial. He was convicted (Apr., 1992) on charges of racketeering, money laundering, and drug trafficking, and sentenced to up to 40 years in prison. France sought to extradite Noriega...
     

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