Exam 14: Organized Crime: Statutes

The _______________ to the U.S. onstitution provides that no person "shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself."

hich of the following constitutes a pattern of racketeering under RICO?

The 1957 "Apalachin Crime Conference" was a meeting of Mafia bosses.

______________ is an agreement among competitors to raise, fix, or otherwise maintain the price at which their goods or services are sold.

What are the criticisms of RICO?

n 1972, ______________ enacted civil RICO legislation with the seizure and forfeiture provision.

The earliest statutes designed to deal with "racketeering" are collectively known as the:

The owner of seized property has a right to contest the seizure before it has occurred.

he Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959 was a response to violent acts of the American Mafia.

The Annunzio-Wylie _______________ Act of 1992 made operation of an illegal money transmitting business a crime.

____________ forfeiture is an in rem proceeding.

What type of activity did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act prohibit?

How is the Sherman Anti-Trust Act 0f 1890 used against restraint-of-trade agreements?

The investigation and prosecution of organized crime per se has largely been a responsibility of the __________.

The ____________ imposes mandatory prison sentences for certain drug offenses and a mandatory doubling of the minimum penalties for offenders with prior felony drug convictions.

Which of the following is not one of the three basic types of conspiracy?

hich of the following is (are) a type of identity theft offense?

The ____________ makes it a federal crime to engage in criminal behavior that interferes with interstate commerce.

n 1970, in response to increasing reports of people bringing bags full of illegally obtained cash into banks for deposit, Congress enacted the statute commonly referred to as the:

he ________________ Act of 2002 removed the intent requirement for individuals and criminalized the actions of sex tour operators.