RICO ACT, Jeff Grell, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations, RICO, Attorney at Law

TESTIMONIALS

“I thought you would enjoy a war story. We deposed [John Doe] (ex-con, con-artist, general bad guy, etc.) two weeks ago. His attorney directed him to not answer most questions as ‘any competent attorney knows that RICO claims cannot be brought in state court.’ I just love it when the big firms are certain that they know everything. [Doe’s] attorney has since changed his mind and is trying to determine what to do. Grell on RICO is great!”

Michael Gregg Morin, Esq., Severn, Maryland

“I would like to thank you for your publication, Grell on RICO... Your writing is such that one can start to have a good grasp of RICO from the reading of the first several chapters... Your treatise is one of the few, if not only, treatise I have encountered in my search which makes RICO understandable.”

Thomas Spielbauer, Esq., San Jose, California

TEXTBOOK ORDERING INFORMATION

GRELL ON RICO has been completely rewritten and revised! After five years as primarily a tool used by Mr. Grell in his class at the University of Minnesota Law School, Mr. Grell took his book to the next level and it is now a comprehensive expression of his outlook on the RICO Act. GRELL ON RICO includes all of the information contained on this website and more. Its 400 pages include edited court opinions, Mr. Grell’s commentary, helpful charts and graphs, and the text of the RICO Act. Available in hardcopy or on CD-ROM.

To purchase a hardcopy of the book, send a check for $90 to RICOACT.COM LLC, P.O. Box 120022, St. Paul, Minnesota 55112. WHEN ORDERING, PLEASE SPECIFY THAT YOU WISH TO PURCHASE A HARDCOPY OF THE TEXTBOOK AND BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR RETURN ADDRESS.

To purchase the CD-ROM version of the book, send a check for $45 to RICOACT.COM LLC, P.O. Box 120022, St. Paul, Minnesota 55112. WHEN ORDERING, PLEASE SPECIFY THAT YOU WISH TO PURCHASE A CD-ROM VERSION OF THE TEXTBOOK AND BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR RETURN ADDRESS.

SAMPLE COMPLAINT ORDERING INFORMATION

In the course of his practice, Mr. Grell has authored many RICO complaints on behalf of his clients. Mr. Grell has never had a RICO complaint dismissed. Given RICO's intricate pleading requirements and given that many attorneys have never pled a RICO claim, Mr. Grell commonly receives requests from other lawyers and pro se litigants who are seeking sample complaints that they can use as a template in their own action. The following complaints may be purchased from RICOACT.COM LLC. These complaints are also useful guides to the types of common law and other statutory claims that may arise under a given fact pattern. The price for each complaint is $50:

MWA v. GK - a complaint filed on behalf of a distributor against a manufacturer and the manufacturer's regional sales manager. The complaint alleges that the distributor was extorted by the sales manager, who threatened the distributor with the termination of its distributorship unless the sales manager was personally paid $1000 per week. After a period of making these extorted payments, the distributor reported the sales manager to the manufacturer. The manufacturer then terminated the distributor and threatened the distributor with criminal prosecution if it brought legal action to challenge the termination or failed to pay its outstanding balance. The distributor brought a RICO claim against the sales manager on the basis of the extorted payments and against the manufacturer on the basis of its attempt to coercively conceal the extortion scheme by threatening criminal prosecution. Because the distributor first made the extorted payments more than four years earlier, the complaint provides insight on how to plead tolling by duress.
TT v. DT - a start-up high-tech company that held the patent rights to a telecommunications product was negotiating a capital investment to be made by a European venture capital company. The negotiations had apparently come to fruition but at a meeting to negotiate the final details of the transaction, the employees of the venture capital company informed the start-up company that they would torpedo the transaction unless the employees were personally given shares in the startup. If they were not given the shares, the employees said they would kill the deal. They claimed that they never recommended an investment to the venture capital company without receiving their personal allotment of under-the-table shares. The start-up refused to give the shares to the employees, and within a few weeks, the "done deal" (reflected in a letter of intent) was dead. The complaint provides insight on pleading RICO claims predicated on solicitation of bribes and/or extortion.
HCH v. LKS - a RICO complaint filed on behalf of a law firm. The claim was based on the fraudulent billing practices of a former partner. When the billing practices came to light, the law firm lost several clients and had to refund a substantial amount of fees. The law firm and partner agreed to simply walk-away from their relationship with each other, with no revenue or refund of capital to the former partner. Before the walk-away agreement was memorialized in writing, the former partner was purportedly killed in a plane crash. Thereafter, the former partner's widow threatened suit against the firm for the money that the firm allegedly owed the former partner at the time of his death. When settlement efforts failed, the firm brought a RICO claim against the widow and the former partner's ex-wife, both of whom allegedly participated in the former partner's scheme to defraud his clients and the firm. The complaint provides insight on pleading RICO claims based on mail fraud, wire fraud, interstate transportation of stolen property, and bank fraud. Also, the complaint alleges a number of related state common law and statutory claims.

Mr. Grell has prepared other complaints, answers, discovery requests, and pleadings. Given the fact specific nature of RICO claims and given the myriad of issues that may be presented in such pleadings, please contact Mr. Grell directly at (952) 835-4101 to discuss other written materials that may be helpful under your circumstances.

The price for each complaint is $50. To purchase the complaints described above, send a check for the total amount of your purchase to RICOACT.COM LLC, P.O. Box 120022, St. Paul, Minnesota 55112. WHEN ORDERING, PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH COMPLAINT(S) YOU WISH TO PURCHASE AND BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR RETURN ADDRESS./p>

MINNESOTA BUSINESS TORTS DESKBOOK

The Minnesota Business Torts Deskbook is now available from Minnesota CLE. This book includes a chapter regarding RICO and authored by Mr. Grell. Click on the following link for ordering information: http://www.minncle.org/AABuy0.asp?ITEMTYPE=P&ITEMNMBR=5054108.


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Order Materials	TESTIMONIALS “I thought you would enjoy a war story. We deposed [John Doe] (ex-con, con-artist, general bad guy, etc.) two weeks ago. His attorney directed him to not answer most questions as ‘any competent attorney knows that RICO claims cannot be brought in state court.’ I just love it when the big firms are certain that they know everything. [Doe’s] attorney has since changed his mind and is trying to determine what to do. Grell on RICO is great!” Michael Gregg Morin, Esq., Severn, Maryland “I would like to thank you for your publication, Grell on RICO... Your writing is such that one can start to have a good grasp of RICO from the reading of the first several chapters... Your treatise is one of the few, if not only, treatise I have encountered in my search which makes RICO understandable.” Thomas Spielbauer, Esq., San Jose, California TEXTBOOK ORDERING INFORMATION GRELL ON RICO has been completely rewritten and revised! After five years as primarily a tool used by Mr. Grell in his class at the University of Minnesota Law School, Mr. Grell took his book to the next level and it is now a comprehensive expression of his outlook on the RICO Act. GRELL ON RICO includes all of the information contained on this website and more. Its 400 pages include edited court opinions, Mr. Grell’s commentary, helpful charts and graphs, and the text of the RICO Act. Available in hardcopy or on CD-ROM. To purchase a hardcopy of the book, send a check for $90 to RICOACT.COM LLC, P.O. Box 120022, St. Paul, Minnesota 55112. WHEN ORDERING, PLEASE SPECIFY THAT YOU WISH TO PURCHASE A HARDCOPY OF THE TEXTBOOK AND BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR RETURN ADDRESS. To purchase the CD-ROM version of the book, send a check for $45 to RICOACT.COM LLC, P.O. Box 120022, St. Paul, Minnesota 55112. WHEN ORDERING, PLEASE SPECIFY THAT YOU WISH TO PURCHASE A CD-ROM VERSION OF THE TEXTBOOK AND BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR RETURN ADDRESS. SAMPLE COMPLAINT ORDERING INFORMATION In the course of his practice, Mr. Grell has authored many RICO complaints on behalf of his clients. Mr. Grell has never had a RICO complaint dismissed. Given RICO's intricate pleading requirements and given that many attorneys have never pled a RICO claim, Mr. Grell commonly receives requests from other lawyers and pro se litigants who are seeking sample complaints that they can use as a template in their own action. The following complaints may be purchased from RICOACT.COM LLC. These complaints are also useful guides to the types of common law and other statutory claims that may arise under a given fact pattern. The price for each complaint is $50: MWA v. GK - a complaint filed on behalf of a distributor against a manufacturer and the manufacturer's regional sales manager. The complaint alleges that the distributor was extorted by the sales manager, who threatened the distributor with the termination of its distributorship unless the sales manager was personally paid $1000 per week. After a period of making these extorted payments, the distributor reported the sales manager to the manufacturer. The manufacturer then terminated the distributor and threatened the distributor with criminal prosecution if it brought legal action to challenge the termination or failed to pay its outstanding balance. The distributor brought a RICO claim against the sales manager on the basis of the extorted payments and against the manufacturer on the basis of its attempt to coercively conceal the extortion scheme by threatening criminal prosecution. Because the distributor first made the extorted payments more than four years earlier, the complaint provides insight on how to plead tolling by duress. TT v. DT - a start-up high-tech company that held the patent rights to a telecommunications product was negotiating a capital investment to be made by a European venture capital company. The negotiations had apparently come to fruition but at a meeting to negotiate the final details of the transaction, the employees of the venture capital company informed the start-up company that they would torpedo the transaction unless the employees were personally given shares in the startup. If they were not given the shares, the employees said they would kill the deal. They claimed that they never recommended an investment to the venture capital company without receiving their personal allotment of under-the-table shares. The start-up refused to give the shares to the employees, and within a few weeks, the "done deal" (reflected in a letter of intent) was dead. The complaint provides insight on pleading RICO claims predicated on solicitation of bribes and/or extortion. HCH v. LKS - a RICO complaint filed on behalf of a law firm. The claim was based on the fraudulent billing practices of a former partner. When the billing practices came to light, the law firm lost several clients and had to refund a substantial amount of fees. The law firm and partner agreed to simply walk-away from their relationship with each other, with no revenue or refund of capital to the former partner. Before the walk-away agreement was memorialized in writing, the former partner was purportedly killed in a plane crash. Thereafter, the former partner's widow threatened suit against the firm for the money that the firm allegedly owed the former partner at the time of his death. When settlement efforts failed, the firm brought a RICO claim against the widow and the former partner's ex-wife, both of whom allegedly participated in the former partner's scheme to defraud his clients and the firm. The complaint provides insight on pleading RICO claims based on mail fraud, wire fraud, interstate transportation of stolen property, and bank fraud. Also, the complaint alleges a number of related state common law and statutory claims. Mr. Grell has prepared other complaints, answers, discovery requests, and pleadings. Given the fact specific nature of RICO claims and given the myriad of issues that may be presented in such pleadings, please contact Mr. Grell directly at (952) 835-4101 to discuss other written materials that may be helpful under your circumstances. The price for each complaint is $50. To purchase the complaints described above, send a check for the total amount of your purchase to RICOACT.COM LLC, P.O. Box 120022, St. Paul, Minnesota 55112. WHEN ORDERING, PLEASE SPECIFY WHICH COMPLAINT(S) YOU WISH TO PURCHASE AND BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR RETURN ADDRESS./p> MINNESOTA BUSINESS TORTS DESKBOOK The Minnesota Business Torts Deskbook is now available from Minnesota CLE. This book includes a chapter regarding RICO and authored by Mr. Grell. Click on the following link for ordering information: http://www.minncle.org/AABuy0.asp?ITEMTYPE=P&ITEMNMBR=5054108.