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27 Apr 2024, 9:05 am
They also wanted a judge to not let that time begin until after Kelly completed a 30-year sentence imposed in 2022 in New York for federal racketeering and sex trafficking convictions. [read post]
26 Apr 2024, 9:08 am
Horn sued, alleging injury under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. [read post]
24 Apr 2024, 11:44 am
” It is a process that the well-respected jurist Richard Posner famously described as “no better than a racket. [read post]
23 Apr 2024, 2:22 pm
The argument section alleges that some or perhaps all of these people and entities violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 18 U.S.C. [read post]
23 Apr 2024, 6:31 am
Harshly, it might be said that the WPS agenda has abjectly failed in its protection goal, namely the fallacy that giving women access to the Security Council and “security spaces” would end or limit the use of sexual and gender-based violence by combatants, or as two prominent scholars have aptly put it, the “protection racket” has not worked so well for women. [read post]
19 Apr 2024, 12:30 pm
"Strike suits" with "mootness fees" are what the Seventh Circuit calls "no better than a racket" and describes this way: "money moves from corporate treasuries to plaintiffs' lawyers; the investors get nothing, yet the payment diminishes (though only a little) the market price of each share. [read post]
17 Apr 2024, 9:01 pm
He came of age in New York in “the heyday of ‘the racket,’” Stein writes, when the ethos of Tammany Hall prevailed in politics and law. [read post]
17 Apr 2024, 7:05 am
Jury selection started earlier this week in the first ever criminal trial of a U.S. president. [read post]
15 Apr 2024, 3:00 am
Racketeering became a federal crime in 1970 under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO. [read post]
11 Apr 2024, 4:40 pm
Their cheerful nicknames — Rhino, Cartoon, Christo, Huero, Trompo, and Shy Boy — might make the men from San Francisco’s Mission District sound harmless, but prosecutors said they were all members of a criminal racketeering enterprise known as the “19th Street/16th Street Surenos” gang that participated in the pursuit, shooting and killing of rival gang members, as well as drug sales, firearms violations and assaults and robberies. [read post]
30 Mar 2024, 4:27 am
It’s not enough, surely: Eastman should be disbarred from every jurisdiction where he still holds a law license, and he has been criminally charged in the Georgia racketeering case, although that is not getting to trial anytime soon. [read post]
29 Mar 2024, 8:22 am
Chesebro was counsel of record for plaintiffs-appellants in Daubert, well before he became a convicted racketeer in Georgia. [9] David Bernstein & Eric Lasker, “Defending Daubert: It’s Time to Amend Federal Rules of Evidence 702,” 57 Wm. [read post]
25 Mar 2024, 6:35 am
Ocasio-Cortez’s view of what constitutes the crime of terrorism is dubious for many, particularly after she declared that racketeering is not a crime. [read post]
22 Mar 2024, 2:26 am
Racketeering is a crime and some of the crimes referenced by Bobulinski are commonly part of such conspiracies. [read post]
20 Mar 2024, 8:08 am
After granting the plaintiff’s request to proceed in forma pauperis, the court dismissed most of his claims but allowed him to amend his claim under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (“RICO”). [read post]
20 Mar 2024, 8:00 am
We’ve called out No Labels on its ruse – and for that, No Labels is demanding the Department of Justice investigate us as a racketeering organization! [read post]
18 Mar 2024, 9:36 pm
The evidentiary and interpretive issues here are—as noted in my previous post—similar to those that sometimes arise when organized crime organizations, like the Mafia, engage in extortion or protection rackets: It's noteworthy that the record analyzed by the [Fifth Circuit] doesn't seem to include any examples of direct, unequivocal threats, such "If you don't take down X, I will inflict punishment Y. [read post]
15 Mar 2024, 3:31 pm
By CNN staff Judge Scott McAfee ruled on Friday that Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis can stay on and prosecute the Georgia 2020 election interference racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and 14 of his co-defendants. [read post]
15 Mar 2024, 11:06 am
The overall racketeering claim used to ensnarl Trump is forced and weak. [read post]
15 Mar 2024, 4:00 am
California – Ex-LA Deputy Mayor on Trial Again Over City Hall Racketeering Charges Courthouse News Service – Edward Pettersson | Published: 3/12/2024 Former Los Angeles Deputy Mayor Raymond Chan went on trial for the second time to fight charges he was part of the widespread racketeering scheme run by convicted former city Councilperson José Huizar. [read post]
