Brescott had made a trip to California, probably to test some racketeering enterprise; but without result.

The illegal acts, prosecutors alleged, were so pervasive that they had turned the governor's office into a "racketeering enterprise."

"The indictments were presented to make it appear that the exchange floor was suffering from broad abuse and could be viewed as a racketeering enterprise."

Mr. Bisaccia faces an additional 20 years for being the leader of a racketeering enterprise.

"I think it's remarkable anywhere in the country where you have a person of that high rank admit to being guilty of a racketeering enterprise."

Federal prosecutors earlier this year called Wedtech a "racketeering enterprise."

The three men were charged in September 2004 with helping turn the governor's office into a "racketeering enterprise."

Wall Street is not a racketeering enterprise, say brokers and financiers; then why are they being treated like mobsters?

An organization without an economic motive can still affect interstate or foreign commerce and thus satisfy the Act's definition of a racketeering enterprise.

"They're saying the office of the governor constituted a racketeering enterprise," he said.