STATE OF FLORIDA, APPELLANT,

v.

MAX KESSLER, ARNOLD HECHT, AND BARDO, INC., APPELLEES

Citator

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• Bradenton Grp., Inc. v. Dep't of Legal Affairs, 701 So. 2d 1170 (Fla. 5th DCA 1997)
  …nses in order to create a RICO violation. They urge that the courts should not be receptive to artful pleading when establishing RICO predicate acts of racketeering. State v. Sun City Oil Co., 522 So. 2d 474 (Fla. 5th DCA 1988) and State v. Kessler, 626 So. 2d 251 (Fla. 4th DCA 1993), review denied, 634 So. 2d 627 (Fla.1994). However contrived the state’s theory, it either succeeds or fails on the question whether any of the allegations of illegal activity set forth in the complaint constitute a violation of…
• State v. Rubio, 917 So. 2d 383 (Fla. 5th DCA 2005)
  …an advance fee from borrower and loan broker fraud were not predicates to support RICO prosecution for committing crime “relating to interest and usurious practices” as offenses did not “relate to” interest and usurious practices); State v. Kessler, 626 So. 2d 251 (Fla. 4th DCA 1993), rev. denied, 634 So. 2d 627 (Fla.1994) (lewdness and assignation were not predicates to support RICO prosecution for committing crime “relating to prostitution”). White Collar Crime In count 130, the defendants were charged wi…
• Bordo, Inc. v. State, 627 So. 2d 561 (Fla. 4th DCA 1993)
  …t denied the petitions in their entirety.11 We address only the statutory failings. Since oral argument in these cases, we have affirmed the dismissal of the RICO counts against appellants and the owners of these stores. In State v. Kessler et al., 626 So. 2d 251 (Fla. 4th DCA 1993), we affirmed the dismissal of the RICO counts upon a holding that the RICO statute does not apply to lewdness violations. The effect of the dismissal of the RICO counts is to remove any felony as a basis for the search warrant. T…