Violation of the act is punishable by up to 20 years in prison per count, up to $ 25, 000 in fines, and the violator must forfeit all properties attained while violating the RICO Act.
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Because the Pussycat had been raided 18 times in eleven years, prosecutors contended, it must be an ongoing criminal enterprise . " That's not what the RICO Act was put in for, " Griffith retorted.
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The Subcommittee s investigations also led to passage of major legislation against organized crime, most notably the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( " RICO act " ), which is a section of the Organized Crime Control Act passed in 1970.
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Inevitably, the Philadelphia crime family has been weakened over the past 30 years due to violence, internal warfare, government turncoats, and the general widespread crack-down by law enforcement on organized crime following the passage of the RICO Act.
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The suit claims O'Connell, the three dioceses, Bishop John Gaydos as head of the Jefferson City Diocese and all U . S . bishops _ " unnamed co-conspirators " _ have violated various provisions of the RICO act since 1964.
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Since the 1980s, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO Act ) has been effective in convicting mobsters and shrinking the American Mafia; like all families in the United States, the L . A . Mafia now only holds a fraction of its former power.
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Chevron then filed suit in the United States, and relying on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO Act ), alleged that plaintiffs'attorneys in the Lago Agrio litigation had engaged in extortion and fraud by paying almost US $ 300, 000 in bribes to obtain the 2011 court verdict in Ecuador.
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Neighbors filed federal and state lawsuits against Barrington and the USCA, in an attempt to stop heroin dealing and collect monetary damages for loss of property value under the RICO act . " According to the factual allegations of plaintiffs'complaint, Barrington Hall residents collectively agreed at a house meeting to allow drug dealing at Barrington.
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"' James T . " Blackie " Licavoli "'also known as " Jack White " ( August 18, 1904 " November 23, 1985 ) was a Cleveland, Ohio mobster and one of the earliest organized crime figures to be convicted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ( RICO Act ).
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After the case was removed to the United States District Court for the Central District of California, on April 26, 2010, Judge Margaret Morrow dismissed the case with leave stating that Kennedy had failed to " detail many portions of her case regarding state violations and, in particular, there could be no claim under the RICO Act.
