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2. Numbers game - Wikipedia

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   The numbers game, also known as the numbers racket, the Italian lottery, Mafia lottery, or the daily number, is a form of illegal gambling or illegal lottery played mostly in poor and working-class neighborhoods in the United States, wherein a bettor attempts to pick three digits to match those that will be randomly drawn the following day.

3. Racketeering - Wikipedia

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   Racketeering is a type of organized crime in which the perpetrators set up a coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation (a "racket") to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit. [1] The term "racketeering" was coined by the Employers' Association of Chicago in June 1927 in a statement about the ...

4. What is racketeering? The crime, explained - AOL

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   For an answer, CNN turned to attorney G. Robert Blakey back in 2019. Blakey has helped draft racketeering laws in at least 22 states It’s not a specific crime

5. Georgia RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations ...

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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. [1] Originally passed on March 20, 1980, it is known for being broader than the corresponding federal law, such as not requiring a monetary profit to have been made via the action for it to be a crime.

6. White-collar crime - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, the longest sentences for white-collar crimes have included the following: Sholam Weiss (845 years for racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering in connection with the collapse of National Heritage Life Insurance Company); Norman Schmidt and Charles Lewis (330 years and 30 years, respectively, for "high-yield ...

7. Protection racket - Wikipedia

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   A protection racket is a type of racket and a scheme of organized crime perpetrated by a potentially hazardous organized crime group that generally guarantees protection outside the sanction of the law to another entity or individual from violence, robbery, ransacking, arson, vandalism, and other such threats, in exchange for payments at regular intervals.

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9. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act - Wikipedia

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   [1] Those found guilty of racketeering can be fined up to $25,000 and sentenced to 20 years in prison per racketeering count. [2] In addition, the racketeer must forfeit all ill-gotten gains and interest in any business gained through a pattern of "racketeering activity." [3]