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Federal official gratuity, mail fraud, Hobbs Act, and RICO: Wedtech scandal [15] Frank W. Boykin: House of Representatives: Alabama 1963: Federal official conflict-of-interest and conspiracy to defraud the United States [16] Democrat: Ernest K. Bramblett: House of Representatives: California 1954 Payroll fraud to cover kickbacks [17] Republican ...
The Georgia law contains a list of 40 state crimes or acts that together can be classified as "racketeering schemes". It is broader than the federal law in that attempting, soliciting, coercing, and intimidating another person to commit any of the offenses can also be considered organized crime.
Killed a federal prison employee. Linked to 4 other murders; claimed to have killed 22 people. George Barrett: Hanging Murder of a federal officer March 24, 1936 Marion County Jail, Indiana: The first person to be executed under a law that made it a capital offense to kill a federal agent. Franklin D. Roosevelt: Arthur Gooch: Hanging Kidnapping ...
The federal law is pretty broad, and has even been used to prosecute insider trading cases and anti-abortion groups who block access to clinics. It has to affect interstate commerce
Randazzo was accused of accepting a $4.3 million bribe to help pass that law and ease regulatory hurdles for the company. He had pleaded not guilty. The case was dismissed after he died by suicide ...
On October 15, 1970, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (18 U.S.C. §§ 1961–1968), commonly referred to as the "RICO Act", became United States law. The RICO Act allows federal law enforcement to charge a person or group of people with racketeering, defined as committing multiple violations of certain varieties within a ...
Nine alleged Kansas City gang leaders and members are charged in a sweeping federal indictment as they stand accused of crimes that include racketeering, drug trafficking and conspiracy to commit ...
Several statutes, mostly codified in Title 18 of the United States Code, provide for federal prosecution of public corruption in the United States.Federal prosecutions of public corruption under the Hobbs Act (enacted 1934), the mail and wire fraud statutes (enacted 1872), including the honest services fraud provision, the Travel Act (enacted 1961), and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt ...