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Reinvesting In Rico With Cryptocurrencies: Using Cryptocurrency Networks To Prove Rico’S Enterprise Requirement, Andrew Robert Klimek Mar 2020

Reinvesting In Rico With Cryptocurrencies: Using Cryptocurrency Networks To Prove Rico’S Enterprise Requirement, Andrew Robert Klimek

Washington and Lee Law Review

This Note received the 2019 Roy L. Steinheimer Law Review Award.

This Note argues that the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) may be suited to cryptocurrency prosecutions. RICO subsection 1962(a) addresses the infiltration of an enterprise by investing proceeds from racketeering activities and this Note contends that a cryptocurrency network could serve as the “enterprise” required by the statute. Instead of having to investigate and prove the relationships in an underlying criminal enterprise, proponents of a RICO case against crypto-criminals could rely on well-documented and publicly available information about the cryptocurrency network to prove the enterprise and the …


Organized Crime And Prohibition: What Difference Does Legalization Make?, Nora V. Demleitner Jan 1994

Organized Crime And Prohibition: What Difference Does Legalization Make?, Nora V. Demleitner

Scholarly Articles

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The Constitutional Infirmity Of Rico Forfeiture Sep 1989

The Constitutional Infirmity Of Rico Forfeiture

Washington and Lee Law Review

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The Admissibility Of Tape Recorded Evidence Produced By Private Individuals Under Title Iii Of The Omnibus Crime Control Act Of 1968 Jan 1988

The Admissibility Of Tape Recorded Evidence Produced By Private Individuals Under Title Iii Of The Omnibus Crime Control Act Of 1968

Washington and Lee Law Review

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