The ruling does not prevent recovery under civil RICO.

A private party may sue under civil RICO and collect three times actual damages plus lawyers' fees.

You say the bills provide "obviously self-interested exemptions" from civil RICO for the securities industry.

A third problem the reform bills address is civil RICO's invasion of civil liberties.

Yet Congress, at the behest of powerful financial industries, is set to weaken civil RICO.

The case against the Keating defendants is the best example of civil RICO's importance in fighting thrift crime.

There are legitimate arguments for some reform of civil RICO.

Unfortunately, this article, urging complete elimination of civil RICO, takes the most extreme possible approach.

Fairness requires a legislative limitation of civil RICO at the earliest possible time.

We need to restore the ability of investors to sue under civil RICO when they've been fleeced by these experts.