Title
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO): Basic Concepts - Criminal and Civil Remedies
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1980
Publication Information
53 Temp. L.Q. 1009 (1980)
Abstract
This article will present a brief overview of the legislative history of RICO, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, and its structure, including its standards and basic concepts. The article will then consider the criminal sanctions authorized under RICO and discuss specific aspects of the RICO civil suit as well as some of the problems that may be expected to arise in it. The objective of the article is to provide the reader with a short introduction to RICO, one of the most sophisticated statutes ever enacted by Congress.
Recommended Citation
G. R. Blakey & Brian Gettings,
Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO): Basic Concepts - Criminal and Civil Remedies,
53 Temp. L.Q. 1009 (1980).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/law_faculty_scholarship/603
Comments
Reprinted with permission of Temple Law Review (previously Temple Law Quarterly).