as in racketeering
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Mexicano later admitted to involvement in both killings and other gang crimes while pleading guilty to a federal racketeering charge, court records show.—
Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
25 Feb. 2026 -
Nearly a dozen Florida gang members and associates were indicted on racketeering charges for smuggling drugs into prisons across the state and attempting to kill their own members, Orlando’s top federal prosecutor said Friday.—
Silas Morgan,
The Orlando Sentinel,
20 Feb. 2026
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Defuse hooliganism with grace, song, and love.—
Chris John Amorosino,
Hartford Courant,
24 Feb. 2026
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Kuper suggests that, where English hooliganism represents a grotesque form of nostalgia, postwar Japanese civility is a pose predicated on collective amnesia about wartime atrocities.—
Ian Buruma,
New Yorker,
23 Feb. 2026
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Protesters held banners decrying criminality and calling for law and order.—
Anand Gopal,
New Yorker,
28 Feb. 2026
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Far from accidental, these highly intentional strikes are one of the untold stories of Russian criminality.—
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal,
Hartford Courant,
28 Feb. 2026
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Mick Cronin is a classic bully, and the fact that UCLA continues to empower him with new contracts and no questions is misguided malfeasance.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2026
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Throughout, emotion churns and chafes against a backdrop of political unrest, corporate malfeasance, and the everyday horrors that erode modern life.—
Nina Corcoran,
Pitchfork,
13 Feb. 2026
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Last month, her government unveiled a legal reform allowing the deportation of foreigners who have been sentenced to at least one year of unconditional imprisonment for serious crimes.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Feb. 2026
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Sometimes a provider’s NPI is used without their knowledge or consent, a crime known as NPI theft that is commonly committed to facilitate Medicaid fraud.—
Mia Cathell,
The Washington Examiner,
27 Feb. 2026
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“Gangsterism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gangsterism. Accessed 5 Mar. 2026.
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