Other cases involving corrupt criminal enterprises, Mr. Weissmann said, had requirements that five people be found to have been involved.

But you continue to ignore the mountain of historical evidence concerning corrupt Western enterprises that knowingly enter into bad-faith contracts with transparently self-serving local elites.

Mr. Tucci was charged under the state's Organized Crime Control Act with engaging in a corrupt enterprise.

Mr. Prevete was also charged with engaging in a corrupt enterprise and faces up to 25 years in prison.

They were each charged with engaging in a corrupt enterprise.

Mediocrity is in some ways an improvement over the years when school construction in New York City was an even more dangerous and deeply corrupt enterprise.

He was, however, found guilty of a single charge of racketeering conspiracy (running a corrupt criminal enterprise).

The government has always exercised ultimate authority over the banks' lending decisions and, historically, has forced them to lend to corrupt and inefficient state-owned enterprises.

The brokers were among 13 former Baron employees indicted on May 13 on state charges of participating in a corrupt enterprise.

Under New York's so-called Little Rico law, he and three others were also charged with running a corrupt enterprise.