Racketeering
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In the United States, 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. The term "racketeering" was coined by the Employers' Association of Chicago in June 1927 in a statement about the influence of organized crime in the Teamsters' Union. Specifically, a racket was defined by this coinage as being a service that calls forth its own demand, and would not have been needed otherwise. Narrowly, it means coercive or fraudul
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It is catalogued under the topic Racketeering.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- crime
- Part of
- organized crime
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- title
- racket
- Commons category
- Racketeering
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