In most cases, the convictions, charges and investigations involve bribery and extortion.

He was accused of being a capo in the family and having engaged in a pattern of racketeering, involving loansharking, extortion and obstruction of justice.

Just last November in New York, 51 people were charged by federal authorities in connection with an international smuggling enterprise that involved attempted murder and extortion.

He was among 10 defendants who ran a racketeering scheme that involved bid-rigging and extortion to skim at least $1 a window on more than a million windows, the prosecutor said.

It involved extortion.

On March 6, 1975, Rastelli was indicted on racketeering charges involving extortion.

The charges involve labor racketeering, bid rigging, gambling, extortion and a murder plot.

On December 22, 1987, Armone was convicted in New York on charges of racketeering conspiracy involving extortion, bribery and illegal interstate travel to commit bribery.

Methods used to maintain the monopoly involved extortion and the violent suppression of the native population, including mass murder.

Because the suit does not involve extortion.