Known as ''sokaiya'' in Japanese, corporate
racketeers specialize in extorting companies by gaining access to shareholders' meetings by purchasing a minimum amount of shares.
Nippon Shinpan is joining an infamous list of major Japanese companies which have given money and other benefits to
racketeers in recent years in violation of the code.
The man in question is a 62-year-old executive of a fruit-concentrate wholesaler in Tokyo's Chuo Ward who was well known as a sokaiya
racketeer until the early 1980s, the daily said.
MMC has reportedly been trying to sever its relationship with corporate
racketeers since the illicit payoff scandal.
"The best thing about The
Racketeer comes, in part, from an appreciation for the time and calculated thinking that Grisham, the author of more than a dozen legal thrillers, has invested in his clever, twisty plot.
To know more about "The
Racketeer" you must place a pre-order and be the first to have this book on release.
Now, with details never before revealed, a new APHA book provides an insider's look at the department's
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO, Act lawsuit against the tobacco industry.
For years, the federal courts of appeals have borrowed heavily from securities law jurisprudence in developing a framework for analyzing claims under the
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
The jury, which deliberated for two days, found that Pfizer violated the federal
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, and California's Unfair Competition Law.
David Witwer, Shadow of the
Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor (Urbana: University of Illinois Press 2009)
Goldman, 66, of Randolph, Mass.; and Edmond Kulesza, 56, also of Somerville, were charged with criminal conspiracy to violate the
Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act.
Shadow of the
racketeer; scandal in organized labor.