Second Circuit· 8/19/2009

United States v. Pizzonia

Citations

577 F.3d 455
2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 18637
2009 WL 2515774

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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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Judges: Calabresi, Straub, Raggi

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