as in racketeering
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They were found guilty in March after a two-week trial of murder-for-hire and attempted murder in aid of racketeering, among other charges.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
31 Oct. 2025 -
Its criminal activities include drug trafficking, arms trafficking, protection racketeering, loansharking, and turf wars against other criminal organizations in the area.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025
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Stoptime's vocalist Loginova received a 13-day sentence for petty hooliganism on Wednesday.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
29 Oct. 2025
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Stone Island’s former association with hooliganism may be attractive to some extremists, whose members share the same feelings of pride and connection, explained Miller-Idriss.—
Steve Salter,
CNN Money,
15 Oct. 2025
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But the question, as Stephanopoulos kept insisting, was not about whether this rose to the level of criminality.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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Be the literal poster children for adolescent criminality?—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Oct. 2025
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Although Lehrer has not been accused of any malfeasance regarding the program, his original lawyer, Lennox Lawrence, was previously attorney general of Dominica.—
Brenna Ehrlich,
Rolling Stone,
26 Oct. 2025
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This tragedy was totally preventable and would have never happened without Biden’s malfeasance.—
Jasmine Baehr , Bill Melugin,
FOXNews.com,
23 Oct. 2025
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Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage?—
Chris Spargo,
PEOPLE,
31 Oct. 2025
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Agnes also makes the decision not to track her attacker down or be more aggressive in her pursuit to see that he is arrested for his crime.—
Destiny Jackson,
Deadline,
30 Oct. 2025
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