The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act has been an effective cudgel in a variety of criminal cases. Some ...

Racketeering is illegal under U.S. federal law thanks to the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, or RICO, Act. RICO was enacted in 1970 with the objective of prosecuting the Mafia.

Zaan Scott, a swim coach at the Eastern Market pool, was on his way home when Green tried robbing him at gunpoint.

Multiple federal prosecutors explain how the verdict is, to quote one, a “huge, huge blow” to the prosecutors who sought ...

Sean “Diddy” Combs was found guilty of transportation to engage in prostitution but not guilty of sex trafficking and ...

Sean "Diddy" Combs was acquitted of the most serious charges in the New York trial. How the celebrity world is reacting to the verdict.

A federal jury acquitted Sean “Diddy” Combs Wednesday of the most serious counts he faced in a trial that Atlanta attorneys said is the latest example of prosecutors’ over-reliance on racketeering ...

Combs will remain behind bars because of his history of violence, the judge said, setting sentencing for October.

"Diddy beat the Feds that boy a bad man!" the rapper 50 Cent wrote on Instagram. 50 Cent has been a vocal critic of Combs, ...

The three-time Grammy award winner was convicted of a violation of a 115-year-old federal law called the Mann Act.

The hip-hop mogul's sex trafficking trial ended in a mixed verdict, meaning the most serious threat, life in prison, was off ...