A convicted New York labor racketeer told a federal commission here Wednesday how he used crime syndicate connections to buy control of a union representing security guards at eastern nuclear power ...

In 2001, reports Tom Griffith at the Rapid City Journal, archeologists in Deadwood, South Dakota, uncovered a cache of more than 200 coins while excavating part of the Old West city’s Chinatown. The ...

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Early on, John Grisham’s latest novel, “The Racketeer,” follows his familiar template in which a lawyer finds himself unexpectedly in legal trouble. But then it breaks out into the exhilarating tale ...

Daniel Espinosa, who helmed Universal's hit "Safe House," is developing the adaptation as a directing vehicle. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Espinosa will exec produce with his manager and producing ...

(CBS News) Author John Grisham is the master of the modern legal thriller. Several of his books have been made into films starring some of Hollywood's most well-known actors, such as Sandra Bullock, ...

Let's make a deal isn't a game show -- it's a con game -- in John Grisham's latest legal thriller. And if all goes according to plan, The Racketeer's Malcolm Bannister is going to game his way out of ...

THE RACKETEER By John Grisham Doubleday, $28.95, 340 pages The new John Grisham novel gets three F’s — one for fascinating, another one for facile and a third for fun. In “The Racketeer,” Mr. Grisham ...

Claim: Federal statutes intended to help fight organized crime were designated 'Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations' laws because the acronym spelled out the name of a film gangster. The ...

Thursday's big takedown of alleged mobsters highlights one of the nation's most powerful and sweeping laws: the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Now in its 41st year, RICO was ...