mafioso

You mean right after they compared them to a mafioso protection scheme?

The operators of Silk Road were mafioso's that ordered hits on competitors and people they didn't like.

You know, like a civilized human being, not some goddamned Mafioso or a member of the KGB.

You seem to be assuming the government doesn't hire skilled computer crackers or, as need be, the occasional mafioso.

It's really mind blowing how thick faced these patent trolls really are, making money off by literally a mafioso like shakedown.

It really is no different from a mafioso coming up to your place of business to demand dues owed for 'protection'.

Throughout history, suspicionless surveillance has been carried out by mafioso to oppress and control.

If that's the case, I don't know how any accused drug dealer or mafioso ever gets a lawyer.

The fact that when I was direct with someone you’re treating it like some mafioso retribution is telling.

I guess it could be helpful knowing if it's a good-hearted civilian versus a tech savy mafioso.

That’s awfully close to blackmail (or a shakedown or a mafioso protection scheme).

A mafioso will never tell you straight-up that they're threatening and extorting you.

It seems that like the corrupt mafioso that edges towards legitimate business as his income swells these political systems creep towards something an awful lot like the western "democracies" we have now.

But she also spins it as if something sexual might happen there, or that Sheryl saying “you should have slept in the bed” in the end of the flight is a mafioso threat - and literally suggesting that Sheryl stopped trusting her because she didn’t take that offer.

The right wing seeks to "finish the job" of private capture of public interests, and the populist side of it adds the mafioso "all in the family" touch where corporations explicitly kiss the ring.

The other thing the word "thug" brings to mind for me, is the stereotyped image of a big white (Italian, probably) guy in an expensive suit, working as an "enforcer" for some mafioso type or something.

Some people gamble too much and owe money to a Mafioso.