In Re Sumitomo Copper Litigation’s Empirical Analysis

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2 federal appellate · 1 district ·

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1. “... RICO does not require intentional or “purposeful” behavior by corporations charged as members of an association-in-fact. Individual corporations may be entirely legitimate and need not benefit from the racketeering; in fact, the criminal activity charged may harm each individual corporation by looting it, or a corporation may be used by the defendant to line his or her pockets.... What RICO does require as a showing of common purpose is “proved by evidence of an on-going organization, formal or in formal, and evidence that the various associates function as a continuing unit.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 210 F. Supp. 2d 71 - United States v. Cianci

2. “Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises, transmits or causes to be transmitted by means of wire, radio, or television communication in interstate or foreign commerce, any writings, signs, signals, pictures, or sounds for the purpose of executing such scheme or artifice, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Calabrese v. CSC Holdings, Inc.