The speaker identifies his former amusement business activities as racketeering because they operated illegal gambling machines, paid off officials, and controlled bar accounts through debt and coerci

“we used them for illegal gambling racketeering you know so and what for years protected us was on the machine it said for amusement only nod nod wink wink”

He contends that the case did not meet the criteria for a RICO charge, which is intended for organized crime hierarchies, not a single business entity.

“RICO case is for a mafia. It's an organized crime. There's a boss, an under boss, a list of people with names and what positions they're in and what they're doing to get money and stuff like that. um, he didn't seem to fit that mold.”