The plaintiffs are suing under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
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RICO is short for the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
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Additionally, employers should be aware of the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.
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What do you say to someone who's publicly accused you of being a racketeer?
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The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) targets ongoing patterns of criminal conduct.
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In prison he met the racketeer Frank Costello and the union boss Jimmy Hoffa.
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The plaintiffs had sought triple damages under the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
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He'd settled in Los Angeles in the 1920s, become a bootlegger, then a gambler and racketeer.
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The group liaised with Jack "Spot" Comer, a notorious Jewish racketeer, but decided against enlisting him.
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Huawei is being charged with conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) statute.
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MOBSTERS, gangsters and bent cops have all been tried under America's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations (RICO) Act.
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They were charged under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, typically invoked to prosecute organized-crime figures.
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The lawsuit alleges this behavior violated the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act, a racketeering law enacted in 1970.
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Kirk also argued that the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act should be interpreted broadly to prosecute gang members.
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"This might be like a 500-person RICO case," he replied, referring to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
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It could also make greater use of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) in order to hold employers accountable.
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The attention that Costello got from law enforcement prevented him from shedding that image of a racketeer, of a mob boss.
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The Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Chinese telecom company Huawei with conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
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Huawei and two of its U.S. subsidiaries violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, through their actions, prosecutors said.
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The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act -- or RICO -- is a federal law that aims to combat organized crime in the United States.
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"We see some of the old cronies of Yanukovich, basically racketeer businesses, being replaced by people close to the sitting president," Saakashvili said.
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The case's greatest impact may be on private civil suits brought under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as RICO.
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I can imagine several committee chairmen exploring whether the actions of the Clinton Foundation violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
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Singer has pleaded guilty to charges including racketeer conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of justice, Lelling said.
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European Community to limit private lawsuits under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, to violations that affect domestic businesses or property.
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It's used in the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, known as RICO, to describe 35 offenses, including kidnapping, murder, bribery, arson and extortion.
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The security agencies' affairs divisions have tended to become nothing more than the protection racketeers' protection racketeer, skimming their share from scams they uncover.
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The claims she dismissed alleged violations of the False Claims Act, Fair Labor Standards Act and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO.
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Clearly he was bad, because he was a racketeer, an extortionist (though "rent collector" was the term he preferred), an arms trafficker and a mobster.
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The suit claims violations of consumer protection laws of all U.S. states, as well as a violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
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The first—that we can bring down even the most powerful racketeer if we simply deprive him of his constitutional rights—is alive and well.
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The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as RICO, is among the federal government's most powerful tools to combat long-running criminal organizations.
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On Thursday, the Department of Justice filed a 16 count indictment against Huawei that included charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
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No one knew for sure who did it but everyone suspected that Klaew Thanikul, the unpopular racketeer in attendance that night, was the man who ordered it.
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If some racketeer refused to answer questions by a congressional investigating committee, and offered no legal reasons for refusing, he would be charged with contempt of Congress.
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Scopo was a powerful labor racketeer, and he used his position to extort money from cement contractors, which would then be divvied up between four mob families.
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There was David Baldwin, and there was the poetry the young artist couldn't help but share with a Harlem racketeer who couldn't help but love the poet.
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Rubin had pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, one count of conspiracy, and two counts of mail fraud.
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Unlike them, who dismiss Ali's mentor and the head of the Nation, Elijah Muhammad, as a "cult racketeer" or worse, I actually interviewed some of the Nation members.
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The case focuses on whether the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), a U.S. law used to target illegal conspiracies including organized crime, applies to overseas conduct.
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But Bussanich is suing them for civil damages, claiming violations under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, which is typically used to go after mob bosses.
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He has even filed a civil complaint under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act — the federal law, known as RICO, under which prosecutors take on the mob.
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Their argument: If the 7th Circuit allows plaintiffs' lawyers to abuse the threat of treble damages under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, free speech will be chilled.
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Bankers can be prosecuted criminally for knowingly banking cannabis businesses under the Bank Secrecy Act, the USA Patriot Act, and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO, Act.
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The suit claims damages of roughly $27 million, mainly because of reduced property values, but seeks triple that sum, as allowed under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
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In both suits, the argument for charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) hinges on the pressure placed on the companies by Greenpeace and other activist organizations.
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The case focuses on the international scope of a law called the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, that is used to target illegal conspiracies including organized crime.
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In recent weeks, headlines have been dominated by a scheme allowing rich parents to bribe and cheat their children's way into elite universities, piloted by a racketeer named William Singer.
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U.S. District Judge Sara Lioi on Monday said the teachers failed to show that the servicer committed fraud as defined by the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
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Planned Parenthood said in a statement that the jury had ruled in its favor on each of its claims, including a violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
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There's some novelty in seeing a Massachusetts racketeer being displaced to the swamps and speakeasies of Florida, but even at this point, Mr Affleck refuses to settle on a single storyline.
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The court, by a 4-to-3 vote, found that the company could not be sued under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, over its conduct abroad.
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In a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the plaintiffs accused Valeant of violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, and sought compensatory and triple damages.
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A charming racketeer who held company with infamous mafiosos, Hollywood moneymen, stars and starlets, Rosselli even had some encounters with members of Congress before it all unraveled for him in Miami.
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The Department of Justice accused the defendants of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) because they created an "enterprise" that crossed state lines that engaged in illegal activity.
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In January 2016, the Department of Justice asked the FBI to investigate whether Exxon should be prosecuted under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, as the tobacco industry was.
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"We request the DOJ investigate whether Shell violated, or conspired to violate, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), consumer protection, truth in advertising, public health, or other laws," they said.
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The law — its full name is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act — allows prosecutors greater flexibility to hold anyone who is part of a criminal enterprise responsible for its acts.
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The one from the U.S. Virgin Islands was notably bold because it tried to invoke the territory's anti-racketeering laws, which are similar to U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
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A TCO designation would open the path to prosecutions against Hezbollah operatives under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act – a step Project Cassandra sought to pursue and the Obama administration blocked.
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It said this let McKinsey's Recovery & Transformation Services US ("RTS") unit collect $101 million of bankruptcy fees it did not deserve, and violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO").
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They said R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company participated in an international money laundering scheme, using drug money to buy tobacco, in violation of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO.
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The committee brought the legal action under provisions of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), the Stored Communications Act, and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
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In March, a class-action federal lawsuit was filed on behalf of 38 individuals against Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi, citing violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, among others.
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They each were charged with one count of conspiracy under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, as well as other federal crimes in connection with manipulating precious metals futures markets.
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The one major issue of substantive law raised by the case was the decision to apply the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, which was originally designed for prosecuting organized crime.
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The executives were previously found guilty of criminal racketeering — the kind of charge under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act that's typically used to shut down the mob and drug trafficking organizations.
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The former Mekong Delta commander (a Thieu protégé) was, for instance — depending on whom one asked — either a notorious heroin-trafficking racketeer or an honest man unjustly smeared by his patron's unscrupulous rivals.
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A new superseding indictment filed in federal court said the company violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), and included new charges alleging Huawei's theft of trade secrets from American technology companies.
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"They were trying to send a message to the world," says Wayne State University law professor Peter Henning, an expert in the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) law being deployed in this case.
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The superseding indictment charges Huawei with conspiring to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and conspiring to steal trade secrets from six U.S. technology companies in order to grow the company.
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Dining | Hudson Valley Until about a year ago, the name most associated with beer in Yonkers was probably that of the notorious racketeer Dutch Schultz, whose criminal domain once included a brewery in the city.
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My mission is to take Trump to trial under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law and Florida laws against fraud and deceptive practices — claims that the district court has already greenlighted for trial.
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He said this let McKinsey's Recovery & Transformation Services US ("RTS") unit collect $101 million of bankruptcy fees it did not deserve, in a scheme that violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ("RICO").
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He has accused McKinsey of not only failing to follow the law, but perhaps using its lack of disclosures to hide nefarious activities, and filed a complaint under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
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The plaintiffs accused Valeant of violating the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, and seeks compensatory and triple damages for U.S. health plans and others that bought its drugs from January 2013 to October 2015.
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She made the comments as Beth Wilkinson, Kapoor's lawyer, urged Burroughs to dismiss the case, saying prosecutors seeking to bring a big opioid epidemic-related case under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act had overreached.
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The lawsuit claims UnitedHealth's co-payments violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), a federal law used to target illegal conspiracies, and in some cases also violate a federal law governing employee benefit plans.
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" U.S. Attorney Cody Hiland for the Eastern District of Arkansas said that invoking the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act in this situation was key to help "communities remain free from these types of crimes.
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Reuters reported a Manhattan judge ruled the four can face state civil claims of fraud, unfair competition and false advertising, but dismissed federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act claims also filed by the plaintiffs.
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They contend that R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company participated in an international money laundering scheme, using drug money to buy tobacco, in violation of the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, also known as RICO.
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Prosecutors said Mr. Cadden had run the pharmacy like a criminal organization, and charged him under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, better known for being used to prosecute members of the mob.
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"Human trafficking, child pornography, the Mann Act -- any of these could be the underlying crimes for RICO," he said, referring to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a law originally designed to target the Mafia.
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At least Victoria Mack efficiently sketches the dancing girl Muriel O'Neill, then the wide-eyed ingénue Miss Clarabelle Cobb; John Plumpis also brings just the right amount of urbane menace to the well-heeled racketeer Heine Schmitz.
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The judge said a U.S. Supreme Court ruling barred lawsuits filed under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) over injuries that occur entirely outside the United States such as this one involving incidents in China.
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The New York Daily News reported in that in 2012, Many people think of the mafia as something that was eradicated thanks to intense law enforcement efforts including the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) of 1970.
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Mr. Alix has already sued McKinsey under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act in New York and is trying to reopen another bankruptcy case in Virginia, on the argument that McKinsey committed a fraud on the court.
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Those explosive — and arresting — hearings led to the 1970 passage of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as RICO, a law designed to allow prosecutors to go after enterprises that engaged in extended, organized criminality.
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White Collar Watch One of the most powerful tools in the Justice Department's arsenal is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as RICO, that can result in long prison sentences for members of criminal organizations.
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In a decision published on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra said consumers suing Speedpay did not prove the existence of a racketeering enterprise, an essential element for a claim under the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
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He said courts have dismissed Mr. Alix's claims in four separate bankruptcy cases, including those of Alpha Natural Resources and SunEdison, as well as a complaint Mr. Alix brought last year under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
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Prosecutors rarely use the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, in corporate criminal prosecutions because it can be a difficult offense to prove, but the law allows them to pull together disparate defendants into a single case.
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The FBI-led sting saw all 33 members of the "Russian crime syndicate" arrested and charged for various forms of conspiracy, including murder-for-hire, extortion, RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act), identity fraud, wire fraud and other illicit activities.
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Filed Monday in San Jose federal court, the lawsuit accuses Big Picture Loans of violating usury laws in California, Ohio, Wisconsin and Texas and the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), which bars the collection of unlawful debt.
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Additionally, they blasted Trump's "embrace of the expansive use of torture," charged him with "inflam(ing) unhelpful passions" in the immigration debate, and accused him of holding "the sentiment of a racketeer" regarding the U.S.'s relationship with its military allies.
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The lawsuit lists 12 laws that the accused parties allegedly violated, including the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), the Wiretap Act, the Stored Communications Act, as well as D.C.'s 'Trespass' law.
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Former Citigroup data center employee Abdul Jaludi had sued Citigroup for alleged violations of anti-retaliation provisions of the 2002 Sarbanes Act and the U.S. Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), claims that a lower court had forced into arbitration.
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But he lost to both of them in the three-way open primary, so the general election was between a racketeer and a white supremacist — even though the electorate of Louisiana preferred Roemer over either of them, according to Hamlin.
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Although other lawsuits have been filed over EpiPen pricing, Monday's is the first to focus on the role of PBMs and to bring claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, a federal law historically used against organized crime.
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Actress Rose McGowan on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and his legal and security teams, alleging their efforts to suppress sexual assault and harassment allegations against him violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act).
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The Department of Justice won a victory against the industry in a case relying largely on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, also known as RICO — despite the tobacco companies' insistence that its public statements were protected under the First Amendment.
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Federal bribery charges also open the door to even more serious charges, such as honest services fraud, which carries a 20-year maximum prison term, and the most powerful weapon in a federal prosecutor's arsenal, RICO (the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act).
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The new indictment, which supersedes one from last year, was filed in federal court in Brooklyn, New York and charges Huawei with conspiring to steal trade secrets from six U.S. technology companies and to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO).
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Images of St. Clair — an atypical Black femme racketeer mafiosa with power on the fringes of 1920's New York society — contribute to a transgressive collective of representations of femme masculinity (where Blackness is always already ungendered and Prohibition-era organized crime is not).
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Wayne's lawyers are also likely attempting to get the attention of the U.S. Attorney General or Florida State Attorney, according to legal experts, because the complaint includes charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), which has both federal and state precedents.
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"Some former prosecutors have even suggested that the coordination between the pay-for-play State Department and the corrupt Clinton Foundation constitute a clear example of a RICO enterprise," he continued, referring to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, an anti-corruption law.
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The superseding indictment, which was filed in the federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charges Huawei with conspiring to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and to steal trade secrets from six U.S. technology companies in order to grow the company.
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What's remarkable about this plot, called the Mavrodi Moneybox Mondial, or MMM, is that it has marched across the globe for almost three decades, headed by a known Russian racketeer who has neither hidden how it works nor even so much as bothered to change its name.
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U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly in Chicago ruled Tuesday that Medical Mutual of Ohio had alleged sufficient facts against Indiana-based Eli Lilly & Co, Illinois-based AbbVie Inc and New Jersey-based Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc to support claims under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
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In lawsuits filed between 2007 and 2010, Allied Services Division Welfare Fund, UFCW Local 1776 and Participating Employers Health and Welfare Fund, and United Benefit Fund allege that GSK violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, by fraudulently concealing the risk of cardiovascular injury.
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State Representative Mike Vereb, a Republican and a former police officer from the Philadelphia area, wrote a letter recently to the United States attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania calling for an investigation under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations act, known as RICO.
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U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in Oakland granted a judgment in favor of Williams and online firm MoneyMutual, saying borrowers suing them failed to show that they participated in coordinated activity to commit fraud, as required for claims under the U.S. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
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And in 2012, Mr. Smith was also part of the legal team that defended AMG Services, the payday lender founded by the convicted racketeer Scott Tucker, whose predatory practices against impoverished borrowers eventually led to a $1.3 billion court-ordered settlement, the biggest in the commission's history.
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He flew 35 bomber missions over Nazi-occupied Europe as a decorated navigator during World War II. He prosecuted accused Communists and the racketeer Frank Costello and, in the 1950s, as an assistant United States attorney in Manhattan, built a tax evasion case against the Rev.
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The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses the dismissal of the potential class action in Los Angeles and widens an existing split between four other circuits on whether individual patients and insurers can sue under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
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The "Baby RICO" statute that Walker has invoked was adopted by the Virgin Islands and other states and territories after Congress enacted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) in 1970, which it created to try Mafia enterprises as a whole, rather than singular cases of lesser criminal associates.
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The Associated Press reports that any cases of cover-ups of sexual abuse — including payments made to victims and their families — occurring within the past five years could fall under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO: a law designed specifically to combat organized crime like the Mafia. Rev.
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If any dioceses are found to have engaged in a cover-up over the past five years, they could be in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), a law designed to counter mafia activity, even if the crimes themselves took place beyond the statute of limitations.
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U.S. District Judge Dan Polster in Cleveland denied motions by defendants Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson, McKesson and more than a dozen other companies who hoped to erase the plaintiffs' claims under the federal Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act and its Ohio counterpart before the first of the cases goes to trial next month.
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Much of the addition to last year's indictment centers around allegations that Huawei USA and Futurewei -- which were both located in the U.S. at the time of the alleged Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act violations -- misappropriated the technology of six U.S. companies by entering into confidentiality agreements and then breaking them.
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Much of the addition to last year's indictment centers around allegations that Huawei USA and Futurewei — which were both located in the U.S. at the time of the alleged Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act violations — misappropriated the technology of six U.S. companies by entering into confidentiality agreements and then breaking them.
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White Collar Watch The government may not always get what it wants from the Supreme Court, but federal prosecutors received exactly what they asked for last week when the justices decided in a case involving RJR Nabisco, the food and tobacco conglomerate, how far the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO, applies to foreign conduct.
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One BIC advisory board member lobbies for New Yorkers for Responsible Waste Management, a trade association whose secretary-treasurer is a convicted racketeer: a lawyer named Ray Shain who was disbarred from practicing law in New York in 2003 after pleading guilty to a bid-rigging, bribery and kickback scheme that defrauded Queens public schools out of an estimated $6.3 million.
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I suggest that House Intelligence Chairman Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffSchiff punches back after GOP censure resolution fails Trump urges GOP to fight for him House rejects GOP measure censuring Schiff MORE (D-Calif.) consider looking to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) as an organizing principle, and way to articulate why impeachment is moving forward, and how it can be framed.
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Ms. Castro, who was indicted by a federal grand jury on April 1, 2015, was convicted in June after a five-week trial of one count of racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations conspiracy, four counts of assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering and four counts of use of a firearm during a crime of violence, according to the United States Department of Justice.
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The suit also claims that after a failed bid to take over GM in 2015, FCA corrupted the collective bargaining process by structuring terms through bribed UAW officials that "forced unanticipated costs on GM." The lawsuit says that under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), FCA would be liable to pay GM three times the actual damages caused, plus interest, punitive damages and attorneys' fees.
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He cited a lawsuit he had brought on behalf of a longshoreman in New Jersey named Pasquale Falcetti Jr. Mr. Falcetti, he said, was denied a port registration card by the Waterfront Commission for no other reason, apparently, than "who this kid's father is" — Pasquale (Uncle Patty) Falcetti, a convicted racketeer and reputed leader in the Genovese family, currently finishing a federal prison sentence.
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