Trump is accused of not only fraud, but racketeering, as if he were running a criminal enterprise.
Aegis's suit included not only civil racketeering claims -- as in the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations statute, or "RICO" -- but also other federal and state civil claims including allegations of mail fraud, wire fraud, fraudulent transfer, unlawful conversion of assets, and intentional submission of false financial information.
The moneymen were ready enough, in the hope that they can raise Bosnia's chances of winning, thereby bringing the lucrative competition to Sarajevo in 2007.Mr Schwarz-Schilling frets that people link Bosnia only to racketeering and people-trafficking.
Before the expulsion in 2002 of Jim Traficant, a toupeed Ohio Democrat who was indicted for bribery and racketeering, only one other House member had been expelled since the civil war.Public trials for both Mr Rangel and Ms Waters are the last thing Democrats want in the run-up to the much feared mid-term elections.
He and the campaign committee were found to have committed 10 of the 16 alleged acts of racketeering -- only 2 were required for a conviction -- including giving specialty license plates to campaign donors, fraudulently mailing campaign checks to employees and state checks to campaign contractors, and destroying documents.
Now many state officials are maintaining that although the early state lawsuits against the tobacco companies sought Medicaid reimbursement, most of the later ones did not, and that the final settlement resolved only accusations of fraud, racketeering and antitrust violations and is therefore not subject to the federal Medicaid reimbursement provisions.
"I remember reading the indictment in a hammock out in the Hamptons, and seeing that my client had only been charged with one racketeering act," she told me in an interview.
And with the racketeering counts, he not only shoots for triple the base amount, but also opens a can of legal worms.
Mr. Gravano, after cooperating with the F.B.I. and federal prosecutors against Mr. Gotti, admitting to 19 murders and other crimes, served only five years in prison on racketeering charges as part of a deal with prosecutors in Brooklyn.
His father was one of 15 brothers, and there was only so much armed robbery and racketeering to go around, so Keith grew up in the (mostly) legitimate world of trucking and distribution.
