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In the Richard Diamond, Private Detective episode Butchers and Protection Racket, private detective Richard Diamond is approached by Giuseppe Angelino, an Italian butcher. Angelino explains that he and other local butchers are being extorted by a protection racket, where gangsters threaten violence if they do not pay up. The butchers have decided against involving the police due to fears of retaliation, and they turn to Diamond for help, offering him a limited budget of one hundred dollars and the promise of meat in trade for his services.
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