The Sum of All Fears
by Tom Clancy · 2 Jan 1989
bribes were being made. He would have his choice of five federal statutes to apply to the case, the nastiest of which was the RICO law, the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act that had been passed over twenty years before without a thought about its possible scope of coverage. He already had one governor in a
Sickening: How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
by John Abramson · 15 Dec 2022 · 362pp · 97,473 words
insulin marketing, 68–69 lobbying expenditures, 96–97, 166 Neurontin, 31, 35, 37–38 public response, 185 Purdue Pharma, 154–59, 216 See also OxyContin Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, 22, 37 randomized controlled trials (RCT), 25, 27–28, 30–31 diabetes glucose control, 71–72 statins and, 55–56 Reagan, Ronald, 94
American Marxism
by Mark R. Levin · 12 Jul 2021 · 314pp · 88,524 words
/2021/04/19/what-they-are-saying-governor-ron-desantis-signs-hallmark-anti-rioting-legislation-taking-unapologetic-stand-for-public-safety/ (April 25, 2021). 71 “Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Law,” Justia.com, https://www.justia.com/criminal/docs/rico/ (April 25, 2021). 72 Meira Gebel, “The story behind Thousand Currents, the charity that doles out
Circle of Greed: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Lawyer Who Brought Corporate America to Its Knees
by Patrick Dillon and Carl M. Cannon · 2 Mar 2010 · 613pp · 181,605 words
list of defendants in this landmark lawsuit, Fischel could instead be linked with Keating as a coconspirator under the civil arm of RICO, the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, the same legislation that had allowed federal law enforcement to pursue criminal cases against the Hell’s Angels, organized crime figures, and international drug
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. Roddy, interview by PD, August 26, 2008. That was Lerach’s hope: William S. Lerach, interview by PD, February 29, 2008. tripling the award: On RICO laws, see U.S. Code, Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure. CHAPTER 12: A GIFT HORSE NAMED KEATING “Well, you’re not going to be able
Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
by Harvey Silverglate · 6 Jun 2011 · 389pp · 136,320 words
The question before three felonies a day 273 the Court was whether anti-abortion protesters could be punished as “racketeers” under the incredibly loosely worded Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization (RICO) Act. RICO was originally enacted to prosecute “organized crime” and to deprive its members of their illgotten gains. It was eventually turned against a
Den of Thieves
by James B. Stewart · 14 Oct 1991 · 706pp · 206,202 words
left without showing any reaction. His lawyers told the prosecutors to go ahead and file charges. Baird threatened to indict Princeton-Newport under RICO, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, aimed at organized crime and providing for heavy damages. Regan seemed unfazed, vowing to fight to the end, Regan told colleagues that he was
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-52 incriminating tapes of, 352, 395 Pritzker family, 103 Pritzker, Jay, 222 Pritzker, Robert, 222 Puccio, Thomas, 434--35, 438 Queen Elizabeth II, 225-26 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) (1970), 372, 384-85, 399, 402, 404, 408, 409, 417, 445 Milken on, 417 Raiders of the Lost Ark (film), 393 Rainwater, Richard
No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
by Jane F. McAlevey · 14 Apr 2016 · 423pp · 92,798 words
to defeat the workers. Smithfield had found an unusual angle, deploying a set of laws originally devised to prosecute organized crime and the Mafia: the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO. The company asserted that the national consumer boycott of their products amounted to “economic warfare.”59 Smithfield further alleged that the union
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workers aligning across, barriers, 165, 167–68 racism, 7, 12, 31, 204 in CPS, 103, 111 at Smithfield Foods, 24, 157–58, 162–63, 165 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), 172–75 rallies, 118–19, 134–35, 136 Rathke, Wade, 122, 223n46 Rauner, Bruce, 200 Reagan, Ronald, 106, 146–47 recruitment, 58–60
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, 153 Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Workers Union (RWDSU), 184–85, 189–90 Reuther brothers, 31, 52 Reveille for Radicals (Alinsky), 43, 47 RICO. See Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act risk, 4, 16, 30, 36–37, 208 Rivas, Amador, 179 Rogers, Ray, 50 Rolf, David, 73, 77–80, 81, 86, 95, 98 Rosenblum, Jonathan
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by Greg Palast · 14 Nov 2011 · 493pp · 132,290 words
movieland mobster played by Edward G. Robinson, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. I had to convince a judge and jury, as well as our own lawyers, that Exxon and its partners were a mob equivalent to the Cosa Nostra, to the Mafia, against which the RICO law was aimed. There is a difference of course
The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
by Matt Taibbi · 8 Apr 2014 · 455pp · 138,716 words
the mortgage scandal was precisely the kind of difficult-to-prosecute, highly organized scam that the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (or RICO) laws were designed for. In fact, there was one mortgage fraud case in which federal prosecutors did employ the RICO laws—but in an awesomely telling detail, the main target was a black street gangster named
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—a private racketeering claim. Unlike the state of New York, which doesn’t allow such lawsuits, New Jersey allows plaintiffs to file lawsuits under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute. A RICO suit is a powerful tool for a company in Fairfax’s position, because it theoretically prevents short sellers from dumping the
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by Robert N. Proctor · 28 Feb 2012 · 1,199pp · 332,563 words
of these archives to 2021 as part of her ruling in USA v. Philip Morris, where the industry was found to have violated the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. Historians have only just begun to work through these archives. They should not be regarded as complete, however. Many documents have been destroyed
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. Philip Morris that the industry had deliberately tried to deceive consumers with its “lights” campaign. Justice Department lawyers had accused the industry of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act—the statute created to punish organized crime—and the court was harsh in its condemnation. In one of the most detailed legal judgments
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