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  2. Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act - Wikipedia

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    The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.

  3. Georgia RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act

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    The Georgia RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act is a law in the U.S. state of Georgia that makes a form of racketeering a felony. [1] Originally passed on March 20, 1980, it is known for being broader than the corresponding federal law, such as not requiring a monetary profit to have been made via the action for it to be a crime.

  4. What is Georgia's RICO Act, and how could it affect Trump? - AOL

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    The RICO Act is meant to deter corruption and stop racketeering.

  5. What is RICO, the law at the heart of Trump’s Georgia ...

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    Former President Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants have been accused of breaking a variety of criminal laws in the Georgia 2020 election subversion case, but one crime ties all their alleged ...

  6. Federal prosecution of public corruption in the United States

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    Federal prosecutions of public corruption under the Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, the Travel Act (enacted 1961), and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) (enacted 1970) began in the 1970s. "Although none of these statutes was ...

  7. RICO law: What you need to know

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    The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act is also known as the RICO law.

  8. Boyle v. United States - Wikipedia

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    Boyle v. United States, 556 U.S. 938 (2009), is a decision by the United States Supreme Court involving what constitutes an "enterprise" under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). The Court, in a 7-2 opinion, held that any group convened to carry out a crime meets the definition of an enterprise, even if it was only ...

  9. Racketeering - Wikipedia

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    The RICO Act allows federal law enforcement to charge a person or group of people with racketeering, defined as committing multiple violations of certain varieties within a ten-year period. The purpose of the RICO Act was stated as "the elimination of the infiltration of organized crime and racketeering into legitimate organizations operating ...