Source: cases/18usc1962/ELEMENTS
# 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (RICO) -- provisional element vocabulary for .case files. # Natural elements until neov2/law/*.law lands; ids are then remapped to Argon's. # `<id> <description>`; sub-elements are written id.sub (e.g. pattern.continuity). person culpable "person" (§1961(3)), distinct from the enterprise under (c) enterprise an "enterprise" (§1961(4)): legal entity or association-in-fact commerce enterprise engaged in, or its activities affect, interstate or foreign commerce association defendant "employed by or associated with" the enterprise (c) conduct "conduct or participate, directly or indirectly, in the conduct of such enterprise's affairs" (c) -- operation/management pattern "pattern of racketeering activity" (§1961(5)): >=2 acts; sub: pattern.relatedness, pattern.continuity racketeering "racketeering activity" (§1961(1)) -- the predicate acts; sub by predicate, e.g. racketeering.mail-fraud debt "collection of unlawful debt" alternative to pattern investment (a) use or investment of racketeering income in an enterprise acquisition (b) acquire or maintain interest in / control of an enterprise through a pattern conspiracy (d) conspiracy to violate (a), (b) or (c) injury civil §1964(c): injury to "business or property" causation civil §1964(c): "by reason of" the violation (proximate cause, reliance)