protection racket

On the outside again, he and three of his new friends began a small protection racket.

By age 16, he had dropped out of school and started his own protection racket.

Someone had been trying the Protection racket on mine host.

Any cop would tell you that a protection racket had no real future.

The top aide of the mayor was involved with a protection racket.

"What's the difference between their protection racket and what you propose?"

Some of them are engaged only in vice or protection rackets.

You won't find him running girls or protection rackets, either.

Maybe he runs some sort of protection racket, I don't know.

This is Bush's version of the old mafia protection racket.

In essence, this is a specialized form of protection racket.

They then use protection rackets and tax local businesses of all kinds.

The fact that none leap to mind shows how well the media's protection racket works.

But after all these years in the protection racket you develop a gut reaction.

Supposedly he had some kind of protection racket going on with the system government and local ships.

Afterward, he said, the intermediary told him how the protection racket worked.

To have 32 seeds in a 128 women's singles draw, would be nothing less than a protection racket.

Yes if you want to preserve your protection racket.

"His office is a giant protection racket, and he actually doesn't know it's wrong."

Patents get turned into weapons in a seedy protection racket.

Ransom demands start in the millions, and, as protection rackets go, business is good.

I told a couple of them once that they were a front for the protection racket and they refused to believe me.

He falls in love and battles a protection racket.

I don't think it's practical to support a protection racket."

"There was a reference to a protection racket in the old crime logs," Michelle said.