As part of the deals that led to the pleas, prosecutors will drop racketeering charges, records show.
Two Atlanta D.J.'s arrested Tuesday night and charged with racketeering after agents raided their recording studio and confiscated 81,000 mixtapes were released on Wednesday on signature bonds, said Uwonda Carter, the lawyer representing Tyree Simmons, who works under the name DJ Drama.
Hines was subsequently convicted of racketeering for protecting Harlem numbers racket s run by Dutch Schultz.
Seeking a builder to cooperate on the project, Mr. Grimm chose a former F.B.I. agent who had served with him in New York — even though the former agent was under indictment on state racketeering and fraud charges, according to court and property records.
The charges include enterprise corruption -- the state equivalent of a federal racketeering count -- conspiracy, promoting gambling and possession of gambling records.
So a few years later, Valenti pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy without being charged, and, in exchange, put on a recording device and coaxed details from his cousin, Vincent Asaro, about his alleged involvement in the 1978 Lufthansa heist of Goodfellas fame the $6 million cash theft at John F. Kennedy International Airport that Valenti says they both played a key part in.
A top entertainment lawyer is indicted on wiretapping and conspiracy charges; a movie star is named as a witness; the press carries bitter tales of an ageing billionaire's divorce from a young tennis pro; a private investigator is accused of racketeering and wire fraud for illegally gaining access to the driving and police records of dozens of individuals.
The family's founder, Sam DeCavalcante, known as Sam the Plumber, long active in a wide range of legitimate businesses including the record industry, was an early and active leader in sophisticated labor racketeering schemes, the authorities say.
Mr. Carro showed him how to use the payroll records of construction companies and union financial records to gather evidence about how some racketeering schemes siphoned off millions.
Subsequently, Death Row Records suffered poor sales by 1997, especially following the death of 2Pac and the racketeering charges brought against Knight.
