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17 Jun 2022, 9:40 pm
The unusual racketeering lawsuit alleges that Fox News gave preferential treatment to a Black contender in the Georgia Republican primary, allowing him extended air time and permitting him to fundraise for his campaign. [read post]
17 Jun 2022, 4:00 am
Now, the businessperson accused of providing that cash is facing his day in court, in the first of three trials that make up the sprawling bribery and racketeering [read post]
16 Jun 2022, 3:59 pm
The Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, simply referred to as RICO, was passed in 1970 to help prosecutors pursue charges against organized crime organizations such as mobs, gangs and cartels. [read post]
16 Jun 2022, 2:44 pm
” Johnson alleged that Musk committed civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) violations through wire fraud, gambling, common law fraud, negligence, false advertising, deceptive practices, products liability by failure to warn, and unjust enrichment. [read post]
14 Jun 2022, 7:08 am
Kapoor, the founder of Insys Therapeutics, was found guilt of racketeering. [read post]
12 Jun 2022, 7:26 am
In the early to mid-2000s, Watts and cop-accomplices terrorized the South Side of Chicago by fabricating and planting evidence and falsely accusing hundreds of innocent people of color of criminal wrongdoing as part of their “protection racket” that included drug and gun smuggling. [read post]
10 Jun 2022, 10:36 am
Michael further seeks to hold OppFi “accountable for its racketeering and illegal loans in Texas” by requesting restitution, compensatory, treble, and punitive damages, injunctive relief, and a judicial determination that OppFi is the true lender on the loans, that Texas law governs these loans, and that the loan contracts, arbitration clauses, class waivers and jury waivers are all void and unenforceable. [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 5:25 pm
Kapoor and Lee were convicted of racketeering for allegedly paying doctors through the mechanism of retaining them for phony speaking engagements to increase prescriptions of their drug, heedless of the abuse potential of the synthetic opioid. [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 8:01 am
” “In a memorandum opinion filed Thursday, a three-judge panel found that District Court Judge Percy Anderson of the Central District of California did not abuse his discretion in disqualifying the Mirch Law Firm of San Diego from acting for Seyed Zia Eddin Ahmadi Abhari and others in an action under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act against Elias Nakhleh and others. [read post]
7 Jun 2022, 6:05 am
No dice on the RICO claim, the court held: RICO defines [potentially actionable] "racketeering activity" as the commission of certain criminal acts under state and federal law, including wire fraud under 18 U.S.C. [read post]
6 Jun 2022, 6:05 am
The jury convicted Gotti of murder, racketeering and other charges based, in part, on Gravano’s testimony, despite Gravano’s admission of committing 19 murders. [read post]
5 Jun 2022, 4:44 pm
Tumey sued Mycroft as well as Mycroft founder Joshua Montgomery and CEO Michael Lewis on several causes of action: Racketeering. 18 U.S.C. [read post]
25 May 2022, 7:32 am
Throughout his racket, he provided substandard legal services to his victims, often immigrants and low-income individuals. [read post]
23 May 2022, 10:57 am
As discussed below, the most recent ruling reinforces continuing calls for securities litigation reform to address the mootness fee “racket. [read post]
23 May 2022, 9:11 am
A word of apology for failure to post for a bunch of weeks; the law racket is pretty busy, we had a viral visitor in our house, the college kid returned spreading expected chaos. [read post]
13 May 2022, 5:01 am
While less frequent, companies, including Google, have used the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) to sue cybercriminals, relying on predicate acts of computer intrusion, wire fraud, identity theft and access device fraud. [read post]
3 May 2022, 11:34 am
§841(a).[6] In the Second Superseding Indictment, the defendants were also charged with violations of racketeering conspiracy, health care fraud conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy, and related charges. [read post]
29 Apr 2022, 1:55 pm
Modernizing Racketeering to Include Sanctions Evasion: This proposal would strengthen the United States’ ability to investigate and prosecute sanctions evasion by adding the crime of sanctions evasion to the definition of “racketeering activity” in the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. [read post]
29 Apr 2022, 4:00 am
National/Federal Amid the War in Ukraine, PR Firms Defend Russian-Tied Clients MSN – Hailey Fuchs (Politico) | Published: 4/26/2022 Several wealthy businesspeople from Eastern Europe have turned to public relations professionals to help navigate press coverage emanating from Russia’s assault on Ukraine. [read post]
28 Apr 2022, 7:37 am
Department of Justice prosecutors are charging both Hwang and Patrick Halligan, the firm’s chief financial officer, with racketeering conspiracy, securities fraud and wire fraud offenses as part of schemes allegedly designed to “unlawfully manipulate” the price of publicly traded securities. [read post]
