To build a criminal case against Sean “Diddy” Combs, federal prosecutors are employing the legal weapon once used to take down the country’s notorious organized crime families. In a sweeping ...

On October 15, 1970, in an effort to curb mob activity in the United States, Congress passes the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The law, also known as the RICO Act, amplifies ...

Without the RICO Act, individually prosecuted cases would clog the courts and prevent juries from seeing the full scope of a conspiracy. Rapper Jeffrey Williams, known as Young Thug (center), listens ...

The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as RICO, was passed in 1970 to help the U.S. government combat organized crime. According to Cornell Law School, racketeering ...