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Organized Crime In The New Millennium

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acket" or the "drug racket", neither of which generally or explicitly involve fraud or<br />

deception with regard to the intended clientele.<br />

Racketeering is most often associated with organized crime, and the term was coined<br />

by the Employers' Association of Chicago in June 1927 in a statement about the<br />

influence of organized crime in the Teamsters union.<br />

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Examples of crimes that may be alleged to be part of a pattern of racketeering activity<br />

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A protection racket is a form of extortion whereby racketeers offer to "protect"<br />

property from damage in exchange for a fee, while also being responsible, in part<br />

or in whole, for the property damage.<br />

A fencing racket is an operation specializing in the resale of stolen goods.<br />

A numbers racket is any unauthorized lottery or illegal gambling operation.<br />

Money laundering and other creative accounting practices that are misused in<br />

ways to disguise sources of illegal funds.<br />

<strong>The</strong>ft operations, including: burglary, home invasion, robbery, identity theft, auto<br />

theft, art theft, car hijacking, truck hijacking, organized retail crime, shoplifting,<br />

and copyright infringement (including the sale of counterfeit goods)<br />

Fraud and embezzlement operations, including: credit card fraud, check fraud,<br />

health care fraud, insurance fraud, mail and wire fraud, securities fraud, bank<br />

fraud, mortgage fraud, skimming (fraud), electoral fraud, confidence tricks, and<br />

bid rigging<br />

Kidnapping<br />

Murder and murder-for-hire<br />

Bribery and police corruption<br />

<strong>Organized</strong> academic dishonesty by school administrators<br />

Loan sharking<br />

Computer crimes<br />

Drug trafficking<br />

Arms trafficking<br />

Extortion<br />

Prostitution and commercial sexual exploitation of children<br />

Human trafficking<br />

People smuggling<br />

Tax evasion and cigarette smuggling<br />

Witness tampering and intimidation<br />

Skimming (casinos)<br />

Operating chop shops<br />

Illegal gambling or bookmaking, including match fixing<br />

Criminal operation of otherwise ostensibly legal operations, such as strip clubs,<br />

casinos, and waste management firms<br />

Poaching, overfishing, illegal logging, illegal construction, and illegal mining<br />

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