{"id":141,"date":"2018-01-25T13:09:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T18:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businesslitigationtrends.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2020-09-24T03:12:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T07:12:24","slug":"legal-intelligencer-rico-plays-role-world-harvey-weinstein-metoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-rico-plays-role-world-harvey-weinstein-metoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Intelligencer: How RICO Plays a Role in the World of Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the January 25, 2018 edition of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelegalintelligencer.com\/\">The Legal Intelligencer<\/a>, Edward Kang, Managing Member of Kang Haggerty, writes on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.com\/thelegalintelligencer\/sites\/thelegalintelligencer\/2018\/01\/25\/how-rico-plays-a-role-in-the-world-of-harvey-weinstein-and-metoo\/\">How RICO Plays a Role in the World of Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Overcoming Obstacles<\/h2>\n<p>Who in civil litigation does not love a good RICO claim? Its boundaries are seemingly endless, and in the case of Harvey Weinstein\u2014perhaps one of the most vilified defendants on the planet right now\u2014there is the possibility of catastrophic implications, as if being the face of an entire movement (#MeToo) is not bad enough.<\/p>\n<p>Civil claims under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 18 U.S.C.\u00a0Sections 1961-1968 (RICO Act), are highly desirable for plaintiffs and their attorneys because, if successful, they provide for treble damages, plus attorney fees and costs of litigation. Very few plaintiffs succeed on a RICO claim, however, so the decision to file one should not be made lightly. Many plaintiffs fail during the pleadings stage, and their claims are dismissed under Rule 12(b)(6). For defendants, like Weinstein, the possible implications of RICO can be disastrous. This potential implication is why defendants of civil RICO claims are eager to settle if the claim survives a motion to dismiss and shows a strong likelihood of surviving a motion for summary judgment. For example, in 2016, Trump University did just that\u2014it settled a civil RICO suit for $25 million, which paled compared to its potential exposure of $170 million.<\/p>\n<h2>Background<\/h2>\n<p>The RICO Act was passed in 1970 as part of the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 to combat large organized crime operations led by the American Mafia and their growing infiltration of legitimate businesses and organizations. Although the RICO Act was drafted to bring down gangsters, it is certainly not limited to that purpose and has evolved into a mechanism to confront business fraud and corruption over the last half-century. This is evidenced by the recent high-profile civil RICO lawsuit filed against Harvey Weinstein.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-rico-plays-role-world-harvey-weinstein-metoo\/#more-141\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the January 25, 2018 edition of\u00a0The Legal Intelligencer, Edward Kang, Managing Member of Kang Haggerty, writes on\u00a0How RICO Plays a Role in the World of Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo. Overcoming Obstacles Who in civil litigation does not love a good RICO claim? Its boundaries are seemingly endless, and in the case of Harvey Weinstein\u2014perhaps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[480,485,414],"tags":[336],"coauthors":[535],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-litigation-and-dispute-resolution","category-civil-rico","category-publications","tag-legal-intelligencer","publication_lawyer-edward-t-kang"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Legal Intelligencer: How RICO Plays a Role in the World of Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo &#8212; Kang Haggerty News &#8212; January 25, 2018<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the January 25, 2018 edition of\u00a0The Legal Intelligencer, Edward Kang, Managing Member of Kang Haggerty, writes on\u00a0How RICO Plays a Role in the World of &#8212; January 25, 2018\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-rico-plays-role-world-harvey-weinstein-metoo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Legal Intelligencer: How RICO Plays a Role in the World of Harvey Weinstein and #MeToo &#8212; Kang Haggerty News &#8212; January 25, 2018\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the January 25, 2018 edition of\u00a0The Legal Intelligencer, Edward Kang, Managing Member of Kang Haggerty, writes on\u00a0How RICO Plays a Role in the World of &#8212; January 25, 2018\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/legal-intelligencer-rico-plays-role-world-harvey-weinstein-metoo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Kang Haggerty News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-01-25T18:09:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-09-24T07:12:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.khflaw.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/KHFSocial.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"250\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"250\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Edward T. 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