Organized crime takes in billions of dollars a year - mainly from gambling, drugs, prostitution, labor rackets and extortion, but also increasingly from legitimate business.

After Hanley's death in 1944, Glimco began to take over a larger number of the labor rackets in Chicago.

Soon, Mr. Richard's legitimate business was a sideline; labor rackets were his game.

He owned a number of bars, controlled numerous gambling operations, and ran some minor labor rackets through his construction business.

Crea specialized in labor rackets, such as gaining power over Carpenter's Local 608 and using it to extort New York City contractors.

Their primary sources of income are said to be gambling, drugs, prostitution, labor rackets and extortion, known in police parlance as "intervention in civil affairs."

He operated his labor rackets diligently for the next five or six years until his former boss, Dopey Benny, had faded from prominence.

Though the labor rackets were his bread and butter, by the mid-1920s, Orgen was expanding his horizons.

The gang's gambling, loan sharking and labor rackets extended into Atlantic City, other parts of New Jersey and Delaware.

By the mid 1970s, the Fiumara crew controlled many of the Genovese union and labor rackets on the New Jersey waterfront.