Legal Opinion
United States v. Harry Aleman and Leonard Foresta
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 30, 1979No. 78-1782, 78-1783PublishedCited by 181 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.
The basic issue in .this case is the applicability of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)1 to criminal activities which do not constitute the infiltration by organized crime of legitimate business. Defendants deny that the Act can be applied to a series of burglaries committed in two states by defendants who are not shown to be members of “organized crime” but also argue, in the alternative, that if the Act is applicable to these particular circumstances, then it should be declared unconstitutional as being vague, a denial of equal…
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