From its base in Brooklyn, a new criminal underworld network is engaging in multimillion-dollar racketeering schemes on an international scale.

Mr. Romano said the Government is also seeking forfeiture of money and property gained through the racketeering scheme.

Federal authorities said that they had broken up a $6 million racketeering scheme that took discarded computer parts and illegally sold them.

The indictment contends that a racketeering scheme was created to make false stock trades that would create bogus long-term capital gains and short-term capital losses.

Mr. Reale's co-defendants were the two lawyers and an insurance broker who benefited from the racketeering scheme.

Mr. Salerno was convicted May 4 of overseeing a massive racketeering scheme that included construction bid-rigging, extortion and gambling.

He said the Federal case involved "a massive racketeering scheme" that generated more than $172 million in fraudulent tax deductions.

On October 1, 2009 Madonna was indicted along with Joseph DiNapoli and 27 others in a large racketeering scheme.

Peter is also supposedly active in some of the Outfit's racketeering schemes.

The indictment did not name Drexel but said it aided in the racketeering scheme.