David R. Berent Robert R. Bonner Gary F. Jacobs Janina M. Jacobs and Joel N. Levine v. Kemper Corporation and Federal Kemper Life Assurance Company

DAVID A. NELSON, Circuit Judge.

This is a civil RICO case in which the plaintiffs allege a pattern of fraud in the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of single-premium whole life insurance policies. The defendants are said to have paid interest to the purchasers at inflated rates during the first policy year, while planning to pay at lower rates later. The district court entered summary judgment for the defendants, 780 F.Supp. 431. Finding no error, we shall affirm the judgment.

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Federal Kemper Life Assurance Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kemper Corporation, (collectively,…