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Symposium: Law And The Continuing Enterprise: Perspectives On Rico: Foreword, G. Robert Blakey
Symposium: Law And The Continuing Enterprise: Perspectives On Rico: Foreword, G. Robert Blakey
Journal Articles
The past twenty years witnessed a sea change in the way that organized crime is investigated, prosecuted, and sanctioned, both criminally and civilly. RICO allowed the law to catch up with the rest of society. In the twentieth century, organizations, not people, control the important elements of society such as: government, commerce and labor. Until the passage of RICO, organizations as such were seldom the fcus of the law-outside of, perhaps, the antitrust statutes. This is no longer true.
RICO, however, is not limited to the activities of traditional Mafia families. It does not matter to a racketeering victim what …
An Analysis Of The Myths That Bolster Efforts To Rewrite Rico And The Various Proposals For Reform: Mother Of God - Is This The End Of Rico?, George Robert Blakey Professor, Thomas A. Perry
An Analysis Of The Myths That Bolster Efforts To Rewrite Rico And The Various Proposals For Reform: Mother Of God - Is This The End Of Rico?, George Robert Blakey Professor, Thomas A. Perry
Journal Articles
In 1970 Congress enacted the Organized Crime Control Act, Title IX of which is known as the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO. At first, the Department of Justice moved slowly to use RICO in criminal prosecutions. Today, RICO is the prosecutor's tool of choice in organized crime, political corruption, white-collar crime, terrorism, and neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic hate group prosecutions. The Department of Justice also is implementing the civil provisions of the Act. The private bar did not begin to bring civil RICO suits until about 1975. When it did, a firestorm of controversy broke out, and today …
What's Next?: The Future Of Rico, G. Robert Blakey, John C. Coffee Jr., Paul E. Coffey, L. Gordon Crovitz
What's Next?: The Future Of Rico, G. Robert Blakey, John C. Coffee Jr., Paul E. Coffey, L. Gordon Crovitz
Faculty Scholarship
Opening Statement of Mr. Crovitz: Coming to the Notre Dame Law School to debate Robert Blakey on the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law makes me feel like Daniel approaching the lion's den. I'm tempted to offer my own prayer, "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no RICO."