Complex Criminal Litigation: Prosecuting Drug Enterprises and Organized Crime
provides practitioners and others interested in the federal criminal
justice system with a comprehensive analysis of the arsenal of federal
laws that provide federal prosecutors the means to combat criminal
organizations, their leadership (i.e. the so-called "kingpins") and
their infrastructure. These statutes include the Racketeer Influenced
and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO); the Continuing Criminal Enterprise
or CCE statute; the Money Laundering Control Act; federal firearms
statutes; and criminal and civil forfeiture laws that permit the seizure
and forfeiture of the profits and instrumentalities of illegal
enterprises. Further, the treatise includes an analysis of the
principal legal issues that federal prosecutors and defense attorneys
need to consider in handling long-term, complex criminal conspiracies
that frequently involve multiple and diverse criminal acts from the
rules relating to grand jury secrecy, granting immunity, bail, criminal
discovery, and all points in between. Finally, because organized
criminal activity respects no national boundaries, the treatise includes
a comprehensive discussion of international criminal law, including
extraterritorial jurisdiction and extradition. Criminal trial attorneys
involved in litigating complex criminal cases will benefit greatly from
reading this treatise.