Legal Opinion
Olive Can Co., Inc. v. Jacob Martin, Jonathan Martin, and D.C.S. Corporation, F/k/a Delicious Cookie Sales Company, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 13, 1990No. 89-3319PublishedCited by 92 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FLAUM, Circuit Judge.
Six creditors of Delicious Cookie Company (“Delicious Cookie” or the “Company”) brought this action to recover approximately $354,000 for goods sold to the Company. The plaintiffs alleged that defendants Jacob Martin and Jonathan Martin, owners and officers of Delicious Cookie, violated RICO, 18 U.S.C. § 1961 et seq., when they set up a sham corporation whose existence they concealed from the plaintiffs, in order to divert to Jacob Martin substantial sums of money that otherwise would have been available to satisfy the Company’s obligations to the plaintiffs. The district…
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