Minnesota Statutes
Minn. Stat. § 609.901 (2026)
Construction Of Racketeering Provisions
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Sections 609.902 to 609.912 shall be liberally construed to achieve their remedial purposes of curtailing racketeering activity and controlled substance crime and lessening their economic and political power in Minnesota.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1993–2023 · leading case: State v. Frazier, 649 N.W.2d 828 (Minn. 2002).
State v. Frazier, 649 N.W.2d 828 (Minn. 2002). “More specifically, Frazier compared the crime committed for the benefit of a gang statute to Minnesota's RICO statute, Minn.Stat. §§ 609.901 et seq. (2000), and asserted that the state RICO statute does not establish an additional and consecutive sentence merely because the…”
State v. Kujak, 639 N.W.2d 878 (Minn. Ct. App. 2002). “Drug-related racketeering, therefore, is a combination of two of the most severe criminal activities covered by our criminal code.”
State v. Kelly, 504 N.W.2d 513 (Minn. Ct. App. 1993). “The state’s position is based on Kelly’s maintaining contacts with customers and employing teenage girls to work as prostitutes for him, not on the association between Kelly and his eodefendants.”
State v. Longo, 909 N.W.2d 599 (Minn. Ct. App. 2018). “Proof of all three characteristics is necessary to ensure that criminal enterprises-the target of the Minnesota racketeer-influenced-and-corrupt-organizations act (RICO), Minn. Stat. §§ 609.901 -.12 (2014)-"are distinguished from individuals who associate for the commission of…”
State of Minnesota v. Paul Scott Seeman (Minn. Ct. App. 2023). “” Minn. Stat. § 609.901 (2012). An “enterprise” under the RICO Act includes “a group of persons, associated in fact although not a legal entity.”
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