United States v. Chao Fan Xu

How courts have described this case

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• holding that RICO does not apply extraterritorially; collecting cases
• holding that RICO does not apply extraterritorially; collecting cases
• observing that immigration and bank fraud parts of pattern were inextricably linked so that without immigration fraud in United States, bank fraud in China would have been “a dangerous failure”
• recognizing presumption that RICO does not apply extraterritorially
• collecting cases identifying either “enterprise” or “pattern of racketeering” as RICO’s focus
• “The conspiratorial agreement [to violate § 1957(a) ] represents the crystallization of the conspirator’s culpable criminal intent; accomplishment of the underlying crime is immaterial to culpability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).