Racketeering

Racketeering

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  American Indian gang trio face racketeering trial

  Three members of a violent American Indian gang known for terrorizing people from the Twin Cities to reservations in greater Minnesota, Wisconsin and ... 

• Court in NYC upholds geriatric gangster conviction

  A 95-year-old mob boss who authorities say boasted about killing 60 people in a lifetime of crime must serve his eight-year prison sentence after his ... 

• Correction: Gang Indictment story

  In a story Dec. 6 about a racketeering indictment against dozens of alleged gang members, The Associated Press erroneously reported the age of ... 

• Judge orders tobacco companies to say they lied

  A federal judge on Tuesday ordered tobacco companies to publish corrective statements that say they lied about the dangers of smoking and that ... 

• Big tobacco says corrective statements go too far

  Tobacco companies are urging a federal judge to reject the government's proposed industry-financed corrective statements, calling them "forced public ... 

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  Corruption trial opens for former Detroit mayor

  Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick repeatedly stuffed his bank account and paid off credit cards with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, the ... 

• Experts: Laws on online prostitution need updating

  Laws written long before the dawn of the Internet age have authorities across the nation struggling to prosecute online prostitution rings because of ...