United States v. Turkette

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• recognizing that, although enterprise and pattern are distinct elements of racketeering, evidence proving these elements “may in particular cases coalesce”
• holding that the term “enterprise” as used in RICO is not restricted to criminal enterprises
• holding that the term \enterprise\ as used in RICO is not restricted to criminal enterprises
• holding that RICO applies to both legitimate and illegitimate enterprises because the statute refers only to “enterprises”
• holding that an “enterprise” is “a group of persons associated together for a common purpose of engaging in a course of conduct”
• concluding that an association-in-fact enterprise constitutes a “group of persons associated together for a common purpose of engaging in a course of conduct”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).