(LANCE )
The safe house was a wreck of broken glass and blood, but I stayed on the floor with the plea deal papers spread across my knees like a battlefield map. My burner phone was on speaker. Marcus Hale’s calm, measured voice filled the room while I pressed a towel to the gash on my temple.
“Walk me through the statute, Marcus. Every implication. I need to know exactly how much rope the feds just handed me before I hang myself with it.”
Marcus didn’t waste words. “RICO is 18 U.S.C. § 1961–1968. The government has to prove a pattern of racketeering activity — at least two predicate acts within ten years — committed by an ‘enterprise.’ In your case, the Black Unicorns and Bistros Global were alleged to be that enterprise. The original indictment listed money laundering, extortion, and
