THE RACKETEER Geocoin
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Owner:
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Released:
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
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Origin:
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Minnesota, United States
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John Grisham is known for stunning twists and turns in his novels. As you flip the pages, you discover one surprise after the next. Doubleday, publisher of John Grisham, invites you to discover why The Racketeer sets a new gold standard—even for the undisputed master of the legal thriller. The Racketeer—so entertaining, it’s a crime!
5,000 The Racketeer Geocoins are being carefully stashed across the U.S. by The Racketeer and his helpers. WIN PRIZES IN THE RACKETEER GEOCOIN PHOTO CONTEST: Share your best The Racketeer Geocoin photos on the John Grisham Facebook page by “liking” John Grisham and uploading your The Racketeer Geocoin photo to the official The Racketeer Geocoin Photo Contest app on the John Grisham Facebook page.
The Racketeer Geocoin Photo Contest is solely sponsored by The Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, A Division of Random House, Inc. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States who are 18 years and older at time of entry. Entry period for the contest commences at 12:01 a.m. (EDT) on October 1, 2012 and expires at 11:59 PM (EDT) on December 15, 2012.Void where prohibited. For details and restrictions, see Contest Official Rules.
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A racket is an illegal business or scheme, usually run as part of organized crime. Engaging in a racket is called racketeering.
Several forms of racket exist. The best-known is the protection racket, in which criminals demand money from businesses in exchange for the service of "protection" against crimes that the racketeers themselves instigate if unpaid (see extortion). A second example is the numbers racket, a form of illegal lottery.
Traditionally, the word racket is used to describe a business (or syndicate) that is based on the example of the protection racket and indicates a belief that it is engaged in the sale of a solution to a problem that the institution itself creates or perpetuates, with the specific intent to engender continual patronage. One example is computer spyware that pretends to be detecting infections and offers to download a cleaning utility for a fee, being itself distributed by the maker of the cleaning utility.
In the example of a protection racket, the racketeer informs a store-owner that a substantial monthly fee will be required in exchange for protection. The concurrent "protection" provided takes the form of the absence of damage inflicted upon the store or its employees by the racket itself.
Other types of rackets include bribery, sexual exploitation of children, and illegal gambling.
The term "racketeering" was coined by the Employers' Association of Chicago in June 1927 in a statement about the influence of organized crime in the Teamsters union.
Source: wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(crime)
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