United States v. Pizzonia

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that pattern of racketeering activity can continue beyond completion of charged predicates
• observing that object of racketeering “is to conduct the affairs of a charged enterprise through a pattern of racketeering, not to commit discrete predicate acts”
• holding, in the context of continuity, that “long-term criminal associations plainly include those traditionally grouped under the phrase ‘organized crime’” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that the government is not limited to the predicate acts that were pleaded to prove a conspiracy to participate in an enterprise’s affairs
• observing that “[o]ur sister circuits have adopted similar holistic approaches”
• upholding defendant’s conviction for RICO conspiracy under statute of limitations challenge even though jury found only two overt acts proven that were both beyond five years of indictment

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