Dean Browning Webb

Rico Conspiracy Law and the Pinkerton Doctrine: Judicial Fusing Symmetry of the Pinkerton Doctrine to Rico Conspiracy Through Mediate Causation Dean Browning Webb

RICO conspiracy law and the Pinkerton Doctrine involve incredibly complex and highly technical issues. Unlike many federal conspiracy statutes, RICO conspiracy law is essentially unique. The United States Supreme Court liberally construes and expansively applies the RICO conspiracy law to reach a myriad of different forms of concerted criminal endeavors. Pinkerton enables a RICO practitioner to plead a viable RICO conspiracy claim to reach those persons who do not actually commit underlying substantive offenses. Liability under the doctrine for purposes of RICO conspiracy is predicated and supported by the concept of mediate causation.