Employees and contractors were routinely threatened with dismissal or violence if they complained, according to testimony at his racketeering trial.

However, the long racketeering trial and the conflict with Amuso had hurt the crew, and their legal problems were not over.

And so it goes in the government's $280 billion racketeering trial against the tobacco industry: another witness, another exhibit.

A witness in a racketeering trial has testified that she saw a man being abducted shortly before he was murdered.

Their murders are among the charges against John Gotti in a racketeering trial scheduled for early next year.

Held without bail, he was tried under a 1992 indictment for jury tampering in Gotti's racketeering trial.

He had open heart surgery in 1998 and another cardiac operation in 1996 before his racketeering trial.

Jefferon's racketeering trial began on March 22, 2010.

He pleaded guilty in a separate garment center racketeering trial this year.

This time, it worked: the plumber provided important evidence in a huge racketeering trial.