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Racketeering activity includes the act or threat of murder, kidnapping, gambling, arson, robbery, bribery, extortion, dealing in a controlled substance, and additional serious crimes punishable by imprisonment for more than 1 year. [7] In the United States, civil racketeering laws are also used in federal and state courts.
The Georgia law contains a list of 40 state crimes or acts that together can be classified as "racketeering schemes". It is broader than the federal law in that attempting, soliciting, coercing, and intimidating another person to commit any of the offenses can also be considered organized crime.
[1] [5] In addition, federal officials are subject to the federal bribery, graft, and conflict-of-interest crimes contained in Title 18, Chapter 11 of the United States Code, 18 U.S.C. §§ 201–227, which do not apply to state and local officials. [1]
But racketeering is “not only associated with organized crime,” Blakey says. The federal law is pretty broad, and has even been used to prosecute insider trading cases and anti-abortion groups ...
The larger crime may be racketeering, money laundering, financing of terrorism, etc. [1] For example, to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO), a person must "engage in a pattern of racketeering activity", and in particular, must have committed at least two predicate crimes within 10 years. [ 2 ]
A gang of 16 Hell’s Angels and Red Devils bikers operating out of Fayetteville faced a sprawling federal indictment Wednesday on charges of murder, racketeering and assault — crimes committed ...
[3] [4] Several local "crime commissions" in major cities and states had also uncovered extensive corruption of the political process by organized crime. [3] Many cities and states called for federal help in dealing with organized crime, yet federal law provided few tools for the U.S. government to do so. [3]
Ten alleged Gambino crime family members and associates have been charged with racketeering conspiracy, extortion, witness retaliation and union-related crimes in a bid for control of New York’s ...