1.   All the defendants are charged as members of a racketeering enterprise that allegedly includes the New England Mafia and the Winter Hill Gang.

2.   It seeks triple that amount, however, contending that First Union has operated as a racketeering enterprise and in violation of antitrust laws.

3.   Kaplan pleaded guilty to a charge of carrying on a racketeering enterprise with the underlying offenses of interstate prostitution, credit card fraud and defrauding Delta Air Lines.

4.   Some civil actions call for the abolishment of the Rampart CRASH Unit and accuse the anti-gang officers of running a racketeering enterprise condoned by top officials.

5.   The boisterous nine-term congressman was accused of running his office as a racketeering enterprise.

6.   Bulger and Stephen Flemmi have already been indicted on charges they participated in a wide-ranging racketeering enterprise that included gambling, loan-sharking, extortion and bribery.

7.   The indictment alleges the family operated a racketeering enterprise that carried out at least five murders and conspired to murder eight other people in New York and New Jersey.