RICOSuitFiledAgainstBetTzedekLegalServicesof
LosAngeles
Using a law originally enacted to combat the mafia, a Marina Del Rey-based legal scholar
recently took the rare step of suing Bet Tzedek
Los Angeles, May 14, 2012 -- Using a law originally enacted to...
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RICOSuitFiledAgainstBetTzedekLegalServicesof
LosAngeles
Using a law originally enacted to combat the mafia, a Marina Del Rey-based legal scholar
recently took the rare step of suing Bet Tzedek
Los Angeles, May 14, 2012 -- Using a law originally enacted to combat the mafia, a
Marina Del Rey-based legal scholar recently took the rare step of suing "Bet
Tzedek," a Los Angeles-based Jewish non-profit entity, under the federal
Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations law ("RICO").
Also named as part of the alleged racketeering enterprise were banker Alan
Rothenberg, David Pasternak, Samuel Sanders, Ronald George, and his son Eric
George (who serves as a member of Bet Tzedek s Board of Directors).
RICO is a federal law that authorizes a civil cause of action for acts performed as part
of an ongoing criminal organization.
RICO focuses specifically on racketeering, and
it allows for the leaders of a syndicate to be held civilly liable for the crimes that they
ordered others to comm
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