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Noun(1) (2) some who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion)(3) crook
Verb(1) carry on illegal business activities involving crime

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(1) In short, I was a racketeer , a gangster for capitalism.(2) In effect, Colombian racketeers have successfully managed to penetrate and profit from the latest trend in the North American illegal drug market.(3) Plundering, looting, racketeering and criminal cartels are commonplace in occupied territories.(4) The film makes it clear that this miserable combination of time and place provides endless opportunities for racketeers .(5) Years of sanctions have left behind an economy dominated by racketeers and smugglers.(6) Liam shows himself quite adept at the drug business, and eventually attracts the notice of local racketeers .(7) Nearly the same number of respondents said blackmail and racketeering were the most serious problems in doing business.(8) The area is closely monitored by the police so there is no chance for dealers, pimps and protection racketeers to move in.(9) They are vulnerable to racketeers , and their children are permanent targets for kidnappers.(10) One week he's thwarting kidnappers in Rome; the next he might be battling racketeers in London or teaching a spoiled heiress a lesson in the Spanish countryside.(11) It's worth remembering that it's not only the obvious racketeers who are guilty of enticing people to run up debts they can't afford.(12) This they did in April, nailing the congressman on 10 counts of bribery, tax evasion and racketeering .(13) Anyway, the owner's under investigation for suspected insurance fraud and racketeering , and maybe even money laundering.(14) He idolised prize-fighters, regarded racketeers as his friends and loved money though he had difficulty holding on to it.(15) In Division Street, for example, he interviewed a host of people living in or near Chicago, including racketeers , landladies, bar owners, steelworkers, slum-dwellers and social workers.(16) True, over the last decade, prosecutors have at last begun to figure out how to break the mob's hold; they have thrown some big racketeers in jail and forcibly injected economic competition into mobbed-up industries.