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loansharking

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loan·shark·ing  (lnshärkng)
n. Informal
The practice of lending money at usurious, often illegal interest rates.


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And indeed, the Gambino and Bonano crime families were built on murder, loansharking, theft and violence - and their publics knew it.
A man identified in a 1990 Pennsylvania Crime Commission report as "the principal Black racketeer in Chester," dealing in drugs and loansharking, was recently appointed as building supervisor in the Parks and Recreation Department.
It took a pittance of FBI cash and the opening of a bar in Florida, which the crew hoped to use for gambling and loansharking, to trap supposedly suspicious Mafia leaders.
 
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