# Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO )- prohibited activities ( 17 charges )

* Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO )

Later that year, Giuliani began seriously considering an indictment of Drexel under the powerful Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, which he had previously used against organized crime.

Rothstein turned himself in to federal authorities and was subsequently arrested on charges related to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ).

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* Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO )

In late 2002, 29 leaders of the gang were simultaneously rounded up from prisons all over the country and brought to trial under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations ( RICO ) Act.

Wilkinsburg was home to the infamous Larimer Avenue-Wilkinsburg ( LAW ) Gang, which was indicted by the federal government under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ).

Gotti was imprisoned in May 1986 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York while awaiting trial on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) charges.

A 50-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Tampa charged the defendants under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) with operating a racketeering enterprise from 1984 that engaged in violent activities, as well as: conspiracy within the U. S. to kill and maim persons abroad, conspiracy to provide material support and resources to PIJ, conspiracy to violate emergency economic sanctions, engaging in various acts of interstate extortion, perjury, obstruction of justice, and immigration fraud.

Examples of inchoate offenses include conspiracy, solicitation, facilitation, misprision of felony ( and misprision generally ), organized crime, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ), and attempt, as well as some public health crimes ; see the list below.

* Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO )

Congress opted to put a federal criminal limit on interest rates by the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) definitions of " unlawful debt ", which make it a federal felony to lend money at an interest rate more than twice the local state usury rate and then try to collect that " unlawful debt ".

In 2000 and 2001, 22 members were indicted on Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) charges including several who were allegedly serving as high-ranking gang leaders while confined in Pelican Bay.

* Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO )

In 1984 the Teamsters local was put under Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) trusteeship, and in 2005 a similar suit was brought against the International Longshoremen's Association local.

In response to a suit filed by the group that met in Tampa, leaders of the Reform Party filed a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) complaint claiming the Tampa group were extremists and guilty of conspiracy.

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Traficant was acquitted of the charges, becoming the only person ever to win a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) case while representing himself.

* Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ), a United States law targeting organized crime

McClellan continued his efforts against organized crime, supplying the political influence for the anti-organized crime laws ( Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, RICO ) which were conceived by G. Robert Blakey until 1973 when he switched to investigating political subversion.

After completing his work on the HSCA, Blakey went on to become the William J. and Dorothy K. O ' Neill Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, and is considered the foremost expert on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ).

On May 22, 2009, Betty Jefferson, Mose Jefferson, Angela Coleman, and Mose's longtime companion, former New Orleans City Councilwoman Renée Gill Pratt, were indicted for violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations ( RICO ) Act.

Shortly afterward, Sheehan and the Institute brought a massive Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) suit, charging that the La Penca bombing was a result of a conspiracy carried out by a " secret team " that had operated since the 1950s outside the control of government oversight.

Facing a massive asset seizure that would have left both him and beloved wife destitute and a case he could not possibly beat, Johnny pleaded guilty to 47 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) predicates for a reduced sentence of 15 years and a fine of 4. 2 million dollars — effectively ending his position as boss ( but still leaving Ginny enough money to live comfortably ).

Almost 7 years later, on August 17, 2006 U. S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler found that the Government had proven its case and that the tobacco company defendants had violated the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ).

Freleng was occasionally the subject of in-jokes in Warner cartoons, with billboards in the background of scenes advertising various products called " Friz " in Canary Row, the " Hotel Friz " in Racketeer Rabbit, and " Frizby the Magician " in High Diving Hare as one of the acts Bugs is pitching.

Racketeer Rabbit is a 1946 animated short film in the Looney Tunes series produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc.

The film is a semi-remake of Racketeer Rabbit, with a similar oven gag.

A federal class-action lawsuit is pending against Kirby under the civil action provisions of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ), for allegedly selling used vacuums as new ; the complaint alleges that " Not only is Kirby aware of this practice, it " participates in the scheme by, among other things, selling to its distributors duplicate or replacement ' Original Purchaser's Registration ' cards to be given to secondhand purchasers.

In June 2006, the American Chiropractic Association filed a national class action lawsuit against the American Chiropractic Network ( ACN ), which is owned by UnitedHealth Group and administers chiropractic benefits, and against UnitedHealth Group itself, for alleged practices in violation of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ).

In 1995, United States federal authorities indicted 22 members and associates of the Mexican Mafia, charged under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act with crimes which included extortion, murder and kidnapping.

According to a 2004 U. S. Government Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) indictment, between 1990 and 2004, the Norte del Valle cartel exported more than 1. 2 million pounds – or 500 metric tons – of cocaine worth in excess of $ 10 billion from Colombia to Mexico and ultimately to the United States for resale.

Using evidence obtained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, eleven organized crime figures, including the heads of New York's so-called " Five Families ," were indicted by United States Attorney Rudolph Giuliani under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) on charges including extortion, labor racketeering, and murder for hire.

In 1988, the United States Department of Justice prosecuted the union under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ).

In 2007, Smithfield filed a federal lawsuit against the UFCW citing the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, claiming that the union orchestrated a public smear campaign to hurt Smithfield's business as a method of extorting the company.

For example, federal prosecutions have been successful using generalized criminal statutes, including the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (" RICO ").

The Court concluded that pro-life demonstrators were not racketeers engaged in extortion and that the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO )— a federal statute targeting drug dealers and organized crime — could not be used against them.

The lawsuit also accuses the Director and other top Highway Patrol officers of violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

Galante pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to violate the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ), one count of conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service, and one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud.

In 2000, after a four-year joint investigation involving local and federal authorities, Nash was arrested and indicted on federal charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO ) for running a drug trafficking and money laundering operation, conspiring to carry out the Wonderland Murders, and bribing one of the jurors of his first trial.