Talk:Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

obviously Wikipedia is not going to cite American imperialism

there is no topic on the use of American lawfare against third world countries that challenge the empire's hegemony. 45.225.17.168 (talk) 16:45, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

Shein RICO Lawsuit

This is new and ongoing, they haven't been tried yet let alone convicted but it might be worth a mention. Also I'm new here so sorry for any wrong formatting.

A lawsuit was filed in California federal court on behalf of three designers who had their products faithfully copied and sold by Shein [source]

From the lawsuit:

"If Shein’s intellectual property theft and blame avoidance is facilitated by its byzantine shell game of a corporate structure, and the willingness of its control group to commit systemic and repeated infringements, as alleged in detail below, there is one legal regime that might provide the remedies necessary to combat such well-organized wrongs distributed across an array of related actors and entities: the civil prong of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (civil “RICO”), which was designed to address the misconduct of culpable individual cogs in an larger enterprise."

"Shein’s misconduct is committed not by a single entity, but by a de-facto association of entities. And just as intended by Congress, the same decentralization that facilitates Shein’s criminal infringement and other racketeering activity, renders individual components of the enterprise, such as Defendants, liable under civil RICO."

"Further, Shein has grown rich by committing individual infringements over and over again, as part of a long and continuous pattern of racketeering, which shows no sign of abating. There is no indication that Shein intends to slow down any time soon—and indeed their corporate literature speaks only of projected exponential growth. It is not an exaggeration to suggest that Shein’s pattern of misconduct involves commission of new copyright and trademark infringements every day." Vinistton (talk) 00:43, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

Donald Trump

RICO charge by Georgia: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/14/us/trump-georgia-rico-charges.html John a s (talk) 07:03, 15 August 2023 (UTC)

Yes, I suppose small time criminal Donald Trump isn't sufficiently important to go under "Famous Cases"?  ;-) 95.91.248.64 (talk) 08:34, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

As mentioned this case is being heard under Georgia law, not as a Federal case, so why is this section even here in this article? There is a separate Georgia RICO article, which is surely where this section/paragraph belongs. Perhaps it may warrant a brief mention here with a wikilink to the correct Georgia RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) Act article

95.145.203.87 (talk) 21:01, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

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