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Edina, Minn. FOR years, protection rackets dominated dangerous urban neighborhoods. Shop owners and residents lived in relative security only by paying off or paying homage to organized criminals or corrupt [...]

Judge Jed S. Rakoff of United States District Court in New York has agreed to decide whether the trustee liquidating Bernard L. Madoff's firm could use United States racketeering law [...]

Defense lawyers at the criminal fraud trial of the media baron Conrad M. Black sought to show on Wednesday that millions of dollars of payments received by Mr. Black and […]

IT was supposed to have been a vote ending nearly two years of work to keep organized crime out of the garbage carting industry. Instead, last week the Board of […]

With John Gotti and scores of other organized-crime members behind bars, law enforcement officials say that New York's mob families are undergoing a major power realignment, elevating to the top […]

A year ago, the C & C drug gang ruled a corner of the South Bronx with assaults, kidnappings and murders, doing its part to make the 40th Precinct one […]

THROUGH an evolutionary process that seems peculiar to broad-based laws that are enacted to combat one set of problems and end up being applied to a host of others, the […]

The bounty from America's war on crime sits in building lots and parking lots, in marinas and airfields and bank vaults around the nation: billions of dollars' worth of cars, […]

In a series of unusual indictments under New York State racketeering laws, the newspaper deliverers' union and a dozen of its members have been charged with extortion, bribery, theft of […]

Despite the absence of a death-penalty law in New York State, a reputed Mafia member could face execution if convicted in a Federal narcotics and murder trial that is beginning […]

The head of the Securities and Exchange Commission has called for a curb on civil lawsuits in securities cases and said the Federal racketeering law should not be used to […]

LEAD: WHEN Michael R. Milken entered a Federal District courtroom in Manhattan last week for the start of his pre-sentencing hearing, he was accompanied by his brother, Lowell, who was […]

LEAD: Brushing aside complaints from consumer groups, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved plans today to cut damages that can be awarded in civil fraud cases under the nation's major anti-racketeering […]

RICO, the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, is a well-intentioned statute gone awry. Congress enacted RICO in 1970 to fight organized crime and to protect legitimate businesses from invasions […]

The Reagan Administration, asserting that a provision of the Federal Government's major antirackeetering statute is being abused by private lawsuits, has proposed a major amendment to the law. The proposal, […]

LEAD: A Federal district judge said yesterday that the Government may freeze the assets of a New Jersey investment partnership even though the firm has not been charged with wrongdoing. […]

A bill to limit private lawsuits under the Federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act passed the House Tuesday and was sent to the Senate. Supporters of the bill said […]

LEAD: Indicting a deposed head of state granted asylum in the United States may seem a poor way to treat a guest. But according to a Federal grand jury in […]

LEAD: A Federal appeals court is conducting an unusual review of the racketeering law that has been used to convict many mobsters, politicians and others. A Federal appeals court is […]

LEAD: Wall Street is not a racketeering enterprise, say brokers and financiers; then why are they being treated like mobsters? Prosecutors and civil litigants who once were content to file […]