11.   Dunphy alleged that as Workers Party chief, De Rossa at best had turned a blind eye to how the party received funds through Official IRA criminal rackets.

12.   He had once been imprisoned as an IRA member, but police said after his parole he turned to criminal rackets.

13.   He made many enemies within the ranks of the Protestant paramilitary underworld because of his hard-hitting reports on their criminal rackets and murders.

14.   Several government campaigns to root out crime and corruption have resulted in the bust-up of criminal rackets run by former soldiers.

15.   The outlawed group also runs a range of criminal rackets, including drug trafficking and the piracy of videos and music CDs.

16.   The Shankill is the birthplace and spiritual heartland for both the Ulster Defense Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force, which have carved out their own criminal rackets.

17.   Today maintains a handful of gunmen running criminal rackets in working-class Catholic parts of Belfast.

18.   Today, some of those commanders run competing criminal rackets.