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 In 2022, Grammy-award-winning hip-hop artist Jeffery Lamar Williams, famously known as, “Young Thug”, was charged with conspiracy and street gang activity under Georgia’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. [read post]
20 Feb 2023, 5:21 am
 Since a characteristic of chirping birds is that their racket resumes as soon as it seems to be ending, the bird in the center droops with lolling tongue, while another begins to falter in song; both birds will come up again full blast as soon as the machine's crank is turned. [read post]
15 Feb 2023, 12:29 pm by Kaufman Dolowich Voluck
Click to read full article  IT’s A PRIVILEGE, NOT A RIGHT by Jack Kallus & Labeed Choudhry It’s A Privilege Not a Right: The Crime-Fraud Exception to the Attorney Client Privilege by attorneys Jack Kallus and Labeed Choudhry On February 18, 2011, Mark Arthur Ciavarella Jr. was found guilty of racketeering by a federal jury.1 Ciavarella was involved in a scheme known as “Kids for Cash” and was sentenced to 28 years is federal prison.2 On June 27, 2011,… [read post]
15 Feb 2023, 11:51 am by CrimProf BlogEditor
Price College of Business) have posted Corruption, Protection Rackets, and Cash Policy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment on SSRN. [read post]
10 Feb 2023, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
National/Federal 2016 Trump Campaign in $450,000 Lawsuit Settlement Voids Worker Non-Disclosure Pacts MSN – Jack Stebbins (CNBC) | Published: 2/4/2023 Former President Trump’s 2016 campaign, as part of a $450,000 settlement of a class-action lawsuit by a former campaign aide, agreed to void non-disclosure agreements that hundreds of campaign workers and volunteers had signed as a condition of their work. [read post]
31 Jan 2023, 2:59 pm by Amy Howe
Smagin (consolidated for one hour of oral argument on April 25): In what circumstances has a foreign plaintiff whose only injury was to intangible property suffered the kind of “domestic” injury required to bring a claim under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act? [read post]
18 Jan 2023, 6:45 am by Charles Kotuby
The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”) enables private individuals injured by a racketeering violation to bring a civil suit and recover treble damages if he was “injured in his business or property. [read post]
13 Jan 2023, 3:13 pm by Amy Howe
Smagin, involving the circumstances in which a foreign plaintiff whose only injury was to intangible property – for example, a court judgment – has suffered the kind of “domestic” injury required to bring a claim under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. [read post]
11 Jan 2023, 2:40 pm by John Elwood
Smagin involves whether a foreign plaintiff can state a cognizable civil claim under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act when it suffers an injury to intangible property. [read post]
6 Jan 2023, 6:56 am by Jeff Welty
” Singer, who pled guilty to racketeering and money laundering, was also ordered to forfeit $10 million. [read post]
6 Jan 2023, 3:45 am by Jon Hyman
 — via Racket Tesla broke labor laws by telling workers not to discuss pay, NLRB claims — via The Verge The USMNT's Gregg Berhalter saga just got weirder — via Deadspin If You're Going to Rage Quit, Do It Right — via Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas My employee doesn’t want to come to work when it snows — via Ask A Manager Court will mull scope of attorney-client privilege when lawyers give both legal… [read post]
5 Jan 2023, 11:59 am by Edward T. Kang
Unlike fraudulent transfer law and reverse veil-piercing, civil claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 18 U.S.C. [read post]
Zobel of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts follows his guilty plea in March 2019 to racketeering conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to defraud the US and obstruction of justice. [read post]
28 Dec 2022, 5:27 am
    Sources:  https://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/PDF/ByArticle/Chapter_14/Article_13A.pdf https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdnc/pr/35-members-and-associates-bloods-gang-plead-guilty-racketeering-conspiracy-and-relatedRead More [read post]
27 Dec 2022, 11:50 am by Michael Lowe
  In May 2022, the Department of Justice sent five federal prosecutors from its Organized Crime and Gang Section to spend the next two years building cases against Texas gang members for cases involving violent crime and supporting federal racketeering charges. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 6:32 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
The 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (Rico) Act was originally intended to combat criminal enterprises like the mafia, but has since been used in civil courts to litigate harms caused by opioids, vehicle emissions and even e-cigarettes as organised crime cases. [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 6:59 am
Suddenly we were assaulted by the racket of a street band or a demonstration.... [read post]
15 Dec 2022, 10:00 am by Ben Sperry & Kristian Stout
Notably, Section 230 issues were dismissed early on in the case, but the remaining claims—rooted in the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) and the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA)—contained elements that support evaluating the conduct of online intermediaries, including payment providers who support online services, through a reasonableness lens. [read post]