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magicarpet

(14,144 posts)
6. Wouldn't it be nice..... The State of New York slams them...
Mon Apr 9, 2018, 06:15 PM
Apr 2018

... as a continuing criminal operation under the RICO Statutes. Found guilty + long prison term + seize all assets.

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U.S. Code › Title 21 › Chapter 13 › Subchapter I › Part D › § 848
21 U.S. Code § 848 - Continuing criminal enterprise

(a) Penalties; forfeitures
Any person who engages in a continuing criminal enterprise shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment which may not be less than 20 years and which may be up to life imprisonment, to a fine not to exceed the greater of that authorized in accordance with the provisions of title 18 or $2,000,000 if the defendant is an individual or $5,000,000 if the defendant is other than an individual, and to the forfeiture prescribed in section 853 of this title; except that if any person engages in such activity after one or more prior convictions of him under this section have become final, he shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment which may not be less than 30 years and which may be up to life imprisonment, to a fine not to exceed the greater of twice the amount authorized in accordance with the provisions of title 18 or $4,000,000 if the defendant is an individual or $10,000,000 if the defendant is other than an individual, and to the forfeiture prescribed in section 853 of this title.

More at link,
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/848

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