Within the last ten years, Lexicon has ordered an employee to commit a murder and has also ordered an employee to kidnap a potential witness. Both crimes were designed to conceal evidence of his organization’s illegal financial activity. Based on

this information, federal authorities would be most likely to use which of the following to arrest him:

a. the federal mail fraud statute
b. federal identity theft laws
c. RICO
d. federal wire fraud laws


Answer: C

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