Word: blakey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forfeiture of assets in proportion to the crime rather than try to seize all of a defendant's business interests. The changes come in response to pending congressional legislation that would weaken RICO laws. Still, the man who helped draft the law, Notre Dame Law School professor Robert Blakey, calls the reforms a "clarification and codification of common sense...
...attempt to use one statute to solve all the evils of society." Others say the law is a good example of justice made blind. Government investigators indicate that, as originally intended, RICO has significantly dented the operations of organized crime. But Notre Dame law professor G. Robert Blakey, one of its main drafters, insists that Congress never intended to restrict its application to the Mob. "We don't want one set of rules for people whose collars are blue or whose names end in vowels, and another set for those whose collars are white and have Ivy League diplomas...
...crushed," vows Rudolph Giuliani, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, who has been leading the major anti-Mafia crusade and who takes personal affront at the damage done by the Mob to the image of his fellow law-abiding Italian Americans. Declares G. Robert Blakey, a Notre Dame Law School professor who drafted the 1970 RICO law now being used so effectively against organized crime: "It's the twilight of the Mob. It's not dark yet for them, but the sun is going down." Insists John L. Hogan, chief of the FBI's New York...
...Judging by the number of Army, Air Force and Marine T shirts from bases across Europe, American Bowl weekend would have been a good time for the Soviets to attack. In the stands beside their British cousins, the Americans offered football seminars throughout the evening. Said Rugby Player Ian Blakey, of Billingham: "I'm sitting behind some Cowboy fans, and they're conducting classes. You need help with all this if you've only seen it on the telly...
...including consumer advocates and plaintiffs' attorneys, reply that even legitimate businesses can behave in illegitimate ways and that government cannot police every violation. RICO, they add, gives the victims of such practices a needed and powerful means of redress. Existing ) fraud laws or securities regulations were not enough, argues Blakey. "Under RICO, the perpetrator knows, 'If I'm caught, I don't just have to give back what I took. I give back three times what I took. It's suddenly economically unwise for me to engage in fraud...