What are the types of scenarios punished under RICO?

What will be an ideal response?


There are three types of scenarios punished under RICO. First, it is a crime for any person to take income from a pattern of racketeering and use or invest that income in an enterprise engaged in interstate or foreign commerce. Second, it is a crime for any person to acquire or to maintain control of an enterprise engaged in interstate or international commerce through racketeering activity. Third, it is a crime for any person “employed by or associated” with any enterprise engaged in interstate or international commerce “to conduct or to participate in an enterprise’s affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity.”

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Just like federal drug laws, all states have the same laws and punishments for drug crimes

a. True b. False

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What is “natural law?”

What will be an ideal response?

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In what venue was Shehadeh convicted?

a. military tribunal b. criminal court c. civil court d. joint military-civilian court

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