Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act

Smartflash sues US Patent Office in ongoing Apple Racketeering Investigation

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Monday, October 30, 2023

LONDON, Oct. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Patrick Racz, founder, and inventor of Smartflash, has announced a lawsuit filed by Smartflash against the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in connection with Smartflash's ongoing Civil RICO investigation into Apple.

Key Points: 
  • LONDON, Oct. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Patrick Racz, founder, and inventor of Smartflash, has announced a lawsuit filed by Smartflash against the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in connection with Smartflash's ongoing Civil RICO investigation into Apple.
  • In 2015, Racz won a resounding victory against Apple in court, with an initial jury award of $533 million for wilful infringement.
  • The key merits and findings of the case, namely that Apple infringed on the technology and induced others to infringe, remain undisturbed today.
  • For more information or to request an interview contact [email protected] or call Charles Carroll on +44 (0) 20 3176 2700.

Smartflash sues US Patent Office in ongoing Apple Racketeering Investigation

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Monday, October 30, 2023

LONDON, Oct. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Patrick Racz, founder, and inventor of Smartflash, has announced a lawsuit filed by Smartflash against the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in connection with Smartflash's ongoing Civil RICO investigation into Apple.

Key Points: 
  • LONDON, Oct. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Patrick Racz, founder, and inventor of Smartflash, has announced a lawsuit filed by Smartflash against the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in connection with Smartflash's ongoing Civil RICO investigation into Apple.
  • In 2015, Racz won a resounding victory against Apple in court, with an initial jury award of $533 million for wilful infringement.
  • The key merits and findings of the case, namely that Apple infringed on the technology and induced others to infringe, remain undisturbed today.
  • For more information or to request an interview contact [email protected] or call Charles Carroll on +44 (0) 20 3176 2700.

Attorney R. Brent Wisner Recognized in 2023 Top 100 Lawyers and Class Action-Mass Tort Trailblazers

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Tuesday, September 12, 2023

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Wisner Baum's managing partner and senior trial attorney, R. Brent Wisner, has been recognized in the Daily Journal's Top 100 Lawyers and the National Law Journal's Class Action | Mass Tort Litigation Trailblazers for 2023.

Key Points: 
  • LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Wisner Baum's managing partner and senior trial attorney, R. Brent Wisner, has been recognized in the Daily Journal's Top 100 Lawyers and the National Law Journal's Class Action | Mass Tort Litigation Trailblazers for 2023.
  • Plaintiff James Goetz would have been the first of many thousands of claimants to allege Zantac causes cancer before a jury.
  • Instead, the next Zantac trial will take place this November, with Wisner serving as co-lead trial counsel alongside Jennifer Moore of the Moore Law Group.
  • Wisner and Moore serve as co-lead trial counsel in both state court litigations.

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP and Zwerling, Schachter & Zwerling, LLP Announce Notice of A Proposed Partial Class Action Settlement. If You Purchased Insurance Through Certain Syndicates at Lloyd's of London During The Period January 1, 1997 Through Ju

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Tuesday, September 5, 2023

A more detailed version of this Notice is contained in a Long-Form Notice posted on the Settlement website at www.SyndicateSettlement.com .

Key Points: 
  • A more detailed version of this Notice is contained in a Long-Form Notice posted on the Settlement website at www.SyndicateSettlement.com .
  • The Syndicates who remain Defendants in the case, and who have not settled, are Syndicate Nos.
  • The steps you must follow to be excluded are described in the Long-Form Notice, which is available at www.SyndicateSettlement.com .
  • Each Class Member who wishes to claim part of the Settlement must submit a Claim Form by December 21, 2023.

RICO is often used to target the mob and cartels − but Trump and his associates aren't the first outside those worlds to face charges

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Thursday, August 31, 2023

Many racketeering prosecutions involve lucrative criminal enterprises, such as illegal drug operations or the Mafia.

Key Points: 
  • Many racketeering prosecutions involve lucrative criminal enterprises, such as illegal drug operations or the Mafia.
  • Whatever the lawfulness of Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, no one claims his conduct was part of a Mafia scheme.
  • At that time, he will be read his formal charges and will plead guilty or, far more likely, not guilty.
  • A grand jury in Fulton County, Georgia, indicted Trump and 18 other political associates on Aug. 15, 2023.

RICO’s relatively short history

    • At least 31 states, including Georgia, have since enacted so-called “little RICO” or “state RICO” laws modeled after federal RICO, allowing such prosecutions to be brought in their courts.
    • In general, both federal and state judges have interpreted RICO broadly, in both allowing charges and convicting defendants.
    • But in such cases only monetary damages and other forms of civil relief may be awarded, and this does not result in imprisonment.

Anyone can get charged with RICO

    • So, if otherwise upstanding citizens who work for legitimate businesses commit acts of bribery and corruption, this can lead to a RICO charge.
    • A few years later, in 1994, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that abortion clinics could use the federal RICO law to sue anti-abortion protesters who conspired to shut them down.
    • In 1997, the federal government charged a Texas sheriff with RICO after he accepted money from a federal prisoner in exchange for conjugal visits with the prisoner’s wife or girlfriend.
    • Over the past few decades, many business leaders, politicians and other government officials have been convicted of state and local RICO offenses for various crimes.

Georgia courts are on board

    • Georgia courts agree with the Supreme Court that their state RICO law requires no allegation or proof of “nexus with organized crime.” A range of people in Georgia have been hit with RICO charges.
    • In 2005, Georgia prosecutors charged a former DeKalb County sheriff named Sidney Dorsey with killing his successor, as well as racketeering and other crimes.
    • Truck stop owners and operators accused of doctoring the prices and fuel quality labels on gas pumps have also been prosecuted.

Napoli Shkolnik Files Insulin Pricing Scheme Complaint on Behalf of Cattaraugus County, New York Against 19 Major Players in Pharma Industry

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Thursday, August 17, 2023

Cattaraugus County claims the defendants - all major players in the pharma industry - engineered these price increases via an opaque, conspiratorial kickback scheme (referred to in the lawsuit as the “Insulin Pricing Scheme”), which has exponentially increased their profits at the expense of payors like Plaintiff and its plan members.

Key Points: 
  • Cattaraugus County claims the defendants - all major players in the pharma industry - engineered these price increases via an opaque, conspiratorial kickback scheme (referred to in the lawsuit as the “Insulin Pricing Scheme”), which has exponentially increased their profits at the expense of payors like Plaintiff and its plan members.
  • The Insulin Pricing Scheme is a multibillion-dollar industry with many of the corporate defendants listed in the top 20 of the 2022 Fortune 500 list.
  • The price range for insulin today can range from $300 to $700 despite costing manufacturers as little as $2 to produce.
  • Approximately 1.7 million people in New York, or 10.7% of the adult population, have diabetes.

PARKER WAICHMAN LLP FILES CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST TRUMP ORGANIZATION FOR OVERCHARGING RENTERS

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Thursday, July 6, 2023

PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y., July 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- New York State Supreme Court Judge Richard Velasquez denied requests by former President Donald J. Trump, Trump Organization Inc., and others, to dismiss a proposed class action lawsuit brought by plaintiffs represented by Parker Waichman LLP against members of the Trump Family and dozens of present and former owners, management companies, and accountants claimed to have participated in or profited from a rent overcharge scheme that unlawfully inflated the rents on at least 14,000 rent-regulated apartments in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island from 1992 through the present day. https://www.yourlawyer.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/2023-06-29-Decisio.... Discovery in this matter will now commence.

Key Points: 
  • Discovery in this matter will now commence.
  • In a class action complaint filed by Parker Waichman LLP on March 15, 2022 (Index No.
  • The Court disagreed, holding that the Complaint, consisting of 315 pages and 834 paragraphs, provided Defendants with sufficient notice of Plaintiffs' fraud and RICO claims.
  • Jerrold S. Parker, Founding Partner of Parker Waichman LLP, stated "The Court's decision represents yet another legal reckoning for the former President and The Trump Organization."

If you had any interest in Swiss Franc LIBOR-Based Derivatives during the period of January 1, 2001 through December 31, 2011, your rights may be affected by pending class action settlements, and you may be entitled to a portion of the settlement fund

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Friday, June 16, 2023

"Swiss Franc LIBOR-Based Derivatives" means: (i) a three-month Euro Swiss franc futures contract on the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange ("LIFFE") entered into by a U.S.

Key Points: 
  • "Swiss Franc LIBOR-Based Derivatives" means: (i) a three-month Euro Swiss franc futures contract on the London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange ("LIFFE") entered into by a U.S.
  • Person, or by a Person from or through a location within the U.S.; (v) a Swiss franc currency forward agreement entered into by a U.S.
  • Person, or by a Person from or through a location within the U.S.
    "Swiss franc LIBOR" means the London Interbank Offered Rate for the Swiss franc.
  • For more information, call toll-free 1-855-914-4639 (if calling from outside the United States or Canada, call 1-503-994-1396) or visit www.swissfrancliborclassactionsettlement.com .

Lowey Dannenberg, P.C. and Lovell Stewart Halebian Jacobson LLP Announce a Settlement for Those Who Have Transacted in Euribor Products Between June 1, 2005 and March 31, 2011

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Thursday, May 18, 2023

The Settlement provides a total of $105 million to pay claims from persons who transacted in Euribor Products during the Class Period.

Key Points: 
  • The Settlement provides a total of $105 million to pay claims from persons who transacted in Euribor Products during the Class Period.
  • You can also choose to exclude yourself from the Settlement, or object to the Settlement.
  • Before any money is paid, the Court will hold a Settlement Hearing to decide whether to approve the Settlement.
  • These payments will also be deducted from the Settlement Fund before any distributions are made to the Settlement Class.

Patrick Racz and Smartflash Launch Civil Rico Investigation into Apple

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Friday, April 21, 2023

LONDON, April 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Patrick Racz, founder, and Inventor of Smartflash, has announced the launch of a Civil Rico investigation into Apple, Inc.

Key Points: 
  • LONDON, April 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Patrick Racz, founder, and Inventor of Smartflash, has announced the launch of a Civil Rico investigation into Apple, Inc.
  • In 2015, Racz won a resounding victory against Apple in court, with an initial jury award of $533 million for wilful infringement.
  • Now, Racz and Smartflash are taking things a step further by launching a Civil Rico investigation.
  • The Civil Rico investigation is being led by a team of legal experts and will focus on gathering evidence to support Smartflash's claims.