And most certainly the entire derivatives business should be classified as organized crime activities and all the thousands of participants indicted under the RICO act.

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After 1960, it moved onto investigating the Mafia, leading to the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organisations (Rico) Act - still the cornerstone of the US government's anti-mob activities.

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Linsey plans to file at least one complaint under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corruption Organizations (RICO) act, alleging that Wal-Mart harbored and transported janitorial staff it knew were working illegally.

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The original RICO complaint now on appeal, filed on behalf of four of the five current plaintiffs, identifies CAIR as a racketeering enterprise under the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), which is a criminal racketeering statute that allows victims to sue defendants in civil court.

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Of the 65 counts in the indictment, Hall and 34 others were charged with one count of violating Georgia's Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly known as RICO.

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The two companies are now faced with a class-action lawsuit arguing that a joint venture between them violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, commonly known as RICO.

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But under RICO, as long as the last predicate act in furtherance of the alleged scheme occurred within five years of the date the indictment was handed up, otherwise time-barred offenses can be used as RICO predicates as well.

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