rackets

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He once worked as for the late Manhattan district attorney Robert Morgenthau, whom Trump has praised in recent social media posts, and was chief of the office’s Rackets Bureau, which investigates criminal enterprises.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2023

Defense lawyer Seth L. Rosenberg, who previously served as chief of the Rackets Bureau at the Manhattan DA's office, is now representing Weisselberg, according to The Daily Beast.

From Salon • Mar. 30, 2023

He pointed to the Army-McCarthy hearings four years earlier and the Rackets Committee sessions that targeted labor leader Jimmy Hoffa.

From MSNBC • Sep. 16, 2015

The Rackets Committee culminated in the 1959 Landrum-Griffin Act, which tempered mob influence and made it far more difficult to organize unions.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2015

Rackets are rather expensive little luxuries, my dear girl.

From The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story by Davis, Stanley