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Civil Rico Under Fire: Will White Collar Criminals Be Exempted?, Mark P. Cohen
Civil Rico Under Fire: Will White Collar Criminals Be Exempted?, Mark P. Cohen
Antioch Law Journal
On October 3, 1985, representatives of a coalition of over twenty public interest and consumer groups' marched in front of the Washington, D.C. law offices of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering 2 holding aloft a banner reading "Corporate Criminals Must Pay" and chanting "Put your clients away, let RICO stay." Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering was singled out as the spearhead of the business lobby seeking, in the coalition's view, to vitiate the effective civil provisions of the "Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act" ("RICO"),3 in particular, its treble damage remedy. The goal of RICO, set out in the "Statement of Findings …