WASTE MAFIA CHARGED IN NEW YORK
17 January 2013 According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the main Indictment charges 12 defendants under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise that asserted illegal and extortionate control over commercial waste hauling companies.
This is a excerpt from article I found In Waste Management World (a trade magazine)