Feds Plan New Vick Indictment and Other Sports News
Federal prosecutors announced they plan to seek a "superseding" indictment soon, meaning more charges and defendants are possible and that additional details about the case could become public. Word has it that the new indictment will include charges of violations of RICO. RICO Law Blog predicts that Vick and associates will also be facing civil RICO in the not to distant future. Although the civil RICO cases will be hard to make because of the requirement that the plaintiff suffer injury to his business or property by reason of the violations of RICO. Since betting on dog fights is illegal, the losing gamblers would not likely find a sympathetic judge’s ear in federal court.
However, much more likely, are civil RICO lawsuits against the NBA and Tim Doughty, the alleged fixer referee who may owe the Columbo family big bucks.