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racketeering
Title: racketeering
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 1189 | Pages: 5.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
racketeering
In 1970, Congress passed the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (US Code-Title 18), or RICO, to provide a powerful tool in the fight against organized crime. Since the mid-1980’s, the RICO Act has been applied in circumstances that many believe to be beyond the scope of the act. The RICO Act enables persons financially injured by a pattern of criminal activity to bring a RICO claim in state and federal court, and to obtain damages …showed first 75 words of 1189 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1189 total…to the fact that they had felt the "so called" criminal had indeed participated in criminal activity. This activity from the government is legal at this point in time. It not only devastates the one whom was innocent but it in fact devastates the individual family and employees should the accused have a business that has employees. Thus causing unemployment for both the business!
owner and the employees and hardship on the family affected.
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