RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS

Anyone have comments on the following? This is a lethal document if I am reading this properly...



CITE-

18 USC Sec. 1962 01/16/96



-EXPCITE-

TITLE 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

PART I - CRIMES

CHAPTER 96 - RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS



-HEAD-

Sec. 1962. Prohibited activities



-STATUTE-

(a) It shall be unlawful for any person who has received any

income derived, directly or indirectly, from a pattern of

racketeering activity or through collection of an unlawful debt in

which such person has participated as a principal within the

meaning of section 2, title 18, United States Code, to use or

invest, directly or indirectly, any part of such income, or the

proceeds of such income, in acquisition of any interest in, or the

establishment or operation of, any enterprise which is engaged in,

or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce.

A purchase of securities on the open market for purposes of

investment, and without the intention of controlling or

participating in the control of the issuer, or of assisting another

to do so, shall not be unlawful under this subsection if the

securities of the issuer held by the purchaser, the members of his

immediate family, and his or their accomplices in any pattern or

racketeering activity or the collection of an unlawful debt after

such purchase do not amount in the aggregate to one percent of the

outstanding securities of any one class, and do not confer, either

in law or in fact, the power to elect one or more directors of the

issuer.

(b) It shall be unlawful for any person through a pattern of

racketeering activity or through collection of an unlawful debt to

acquire or maintain, directly or indirectly, any interest in or

control of any enterprise which is engaged in, or the activities of

which affect, interstate or foreign commerce.

(c) It shall be unlawful for any person employed by or associated

with any enterprise engaged in, or the activities of which affect,

interstate or foreign commerce, to conduct or participate, directly

or indirectly, in the conduct of such enterprise's affairs through

a pattern of racketeering activity or collection of unlawful debt.

(d) It shall be unlawful for any person to conspire to violate

any of the provisions of subsection (a), (b), or (c) of this

section.



-SOURCE-

(Added Pub. L. 91-452, title IX, Sec. 901(a), Oct. 15, 1970, 84

Stat. 942; amended Pub. L. 100-690, title VII, Sec. 7033, Nov. 18,

1988, 102 Stat. 4398.)



-MISC1-

AMENDMENTS

1988 - Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 100-690 substituted ''subsection''

for ''subsections''.



-SECREF-

SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS

This section is referred to in sections 1963, 1964, 3554 of this

title; title 7 section 12a; title 8 section 1101.

[seeker]

gee, could this apply to the Nasty Armbreaker Association(NAF)?

and their collusion with MBNA and their racketeers?



seeker

RICO is one of the most powerful tools we have. If you check cites regarding it there is an aspect that assumes conspiracy. Conspiracy is a crime that one must prove that he did NOT do it. RICO was enacted to get at the mobs. I do not think the Society Of Birdwatchers intended that WE glom on to it. There are certain elements that must be alleged and proven. We should research it.

Prof. Jim

[seeker]

I'm going to incite y' all to go after that damned NAF, yet, I am I am!!!!



Seeker

[weishaupt1776]

Originally Posted by Jim

. . . RICO was enacted to get at the mobs. . ,

<font color=blacK>[b]Yeah, the DoC is grad school for the mobs. They make John Gotti look like a Sunday school teacher.