United States v. Robert Aulicino, Jr., David Cleary, and Louis Ruggiero, Jr.

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• holding that the threat of continuity is not present where the defendant had a piece of property the sale of which, even if by fraudulent means, provided a natural end to the project
• finding that the activity appeared to have ended because of lack of leadership and fear of being caught
• noting that open-ended continuity does not exist when predicate acts are “in furtherance of endeavors that are not inherently unlawful, such as frauds in the sale of property”
• noting that merely because the enterprise abandoned its activities does not mean that there was a discrete and finite project that came to a natural end
• noting defendants had an associate threaten a witness’s life and offer $50,000 for the witness’s silence
• finding sufficient evidence of a threat of continued activity even though “[t]he [kidnapping] ring’s activities were abandoned,” explaining that the kidnappings “were not a discrete and finite project that came to a natural end”

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