racketeered
Committed organized crime
Racketeered is the past tense of racketeer, meaning to engage in illegal or fraudulent business schemes, typically involving extortion, bribery, or organized crime.
The verb derives from racket in its sense of a dishonest enterprise.
The mob boss racketeered his way through the construction industry for decades.
Someone who racketeers runs protection schemes, skims profits, or otherwise operates criminal enterprises for profit.
Obtained by intimidation
- mobDisorderly, aggressive crowd
- mafiaCriminal organization using intimidation
- syndicateCombined group pursuing shared interest
- gangsterCriminal organization member
cartel · bootlegged · smuggled · trafficked · laundered · bribed · intimidated · protection
Stole entrusted money
- defraudedIllegally deceived for gain
- swindledDeceived for gain
- bribedCorrupted with payment
- kickbacksIllegal return payments
graft · payoffs · rigged · fixed · collusion · conspiracy · crooked · illicit
Joining into one
- strikeForceful impact or stoppage
- duesRegular membership payments
- HoffaVanished trucking union chief
- teamstersProfessional freight drivers
longshoremen · dockworkers · coerced · strong-armed · picket · solidarity · organizer · goons
extorted
Obtained by intimidation
- mobDisorderly, aggressive crowd
- mafiaCriminal organization using intimidation
- syndicateCombined group pursuing shared interest
gangster · cartel · bootlegged · smuggled · trafficked · laundered · bribed · intimidated · protection · shakedown
embezzled
Stole entrusted money
kickbacks · graft · payoffs · rigged · fixed · collusion · conspiracy · crooked · illicit · profiteered
union
Joining into one
teamsters · longshoremen · dockworkers · coerced · strong-armed · picket · solidarity · organizer · goons · enforcers