Legal Opinion
United States v. Seymour Sapoznik
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 3, 1998No. 98-1502PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The defendant pleaded guilty to conducting an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering, in violation of a provision of the RICO statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1962(c). He was the police chief of Northlake, a suburb of Chicago, and during his tenure in this job, which lasted from 1990 to 1994, he received some $500 a month from the “Outfit” (the Chicago branch of the Mafia, the Outfit is the lineal descendant of the Capone mob) to protect illegal gambling in the town’s bars and restaurants. He was sentenced to 88 months in prison and to pay restitution to Northlake equal to a…
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