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1    AN ACT concerning criminal law.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Criminal Code of 1961 is amended by adding
5Article 33G as follows:
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/Art. 33G heading new)
7
ARTICLE 33G.
8
ILLINOIS STREET GANG AND RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT
9
ORGANIZATIONS LAW

 
10    (720 ILCS 5/33G-1 new)
11    Sec. 33G-1. Short title. This Article may be cited as the
12Illinois Street Gang and Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
13Organizations Law (or "RICO").
 
14    (720 ILCS 5/33G-2 new)
15    Sec. 33G-2. Legislative declaration. The substantial harm
16inflicted on the people and economy of this State by pervasive
17violent street gangs and other forms of enterprise criminality,
18is legitimately a matter of grave concern to the people of this
19State who have a basic right to be protected from that criminal
20activity and to be given adequate remedies to redress its
21harms. Whereas the current laws of this State provide

 

 

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1inadequate remedies, procedures and punishments, the Illinois
2General Assembly hereby gives the supplemental remedies of the
3Illinois Street Gang and Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt
4Organizations Law full force and effect under law for the
5common good of this State and its people.
 
6    (720 ILCS 5/33G-3 new)
7    Sec. 33G-3. Definitions. As used in this Article:
8    (a) "Another state" means any State of the United States
9(other than the State of Illinois), or the District of
10Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any territory
11or possession of the United States, or any political
12subdivision, or any department, agency, or instrumentality
13thereof.
14    (b) "Enterprise" includes:
15        (1) any partnership, corporation, association,
16    business or charitable trust, or other legal entity; and
17        (2) any group of individuals or other legal entities,
18    or any combination thereof, associated in fact although not
19    itself a legal entity. An association in fact must be held
20    together by a common purpose of engaging in a course of
21    conduct, and it may be associated together for purposes
22    that are both legal and illegal. An association in fact
23    must:
24            (A) have an ongoing organization or structure,
25        either formal or informal;

 

 

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1            (B) the various members of the group must function
2        as a continuing unit, even if the group changes
3        membership by gaining or losing members over time; and
4            (C) have an ascertainable structure distinct from
5        that inherent in the conduct of a pattern of predicate
6        activity.
7    As used in this Article, "enterprise" includes licit and
8illicit enterprises.
9    (c) "Labor organization" includes any organization, labor
10union, craft union, or any voluntary unincorporated
11association designed to further the cause of the rights of
12union labor that is constituted for the purpose, in whole or in
13part, of collective bargaining or of dealing with employers
14concerning grievances, terms or conditions of employment, or
15apprenticeships or applications for apprenticeships, or of
16other mutual aid or protection in connection with employment,
17including apprenticeships or applications for apprenticeships.
18    (d) "Operation or management" means directing or carrying
19out the enterprise's affairs and is limited to any person who
20knowingly serves as a leader, organizer, operator, manager,
21director, supervisor, financier, advisor, recruiter, supplier,
22or enforcer of an enterprise in violation of this Article.
23    (e) "Predicate activity" means any act that is a Class 2
24felony or higher and constitutes a violation or violations of
25any of the following provisions of the laws of the State of
26Illinois (as amended or revised as of the date the activity

 

 

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1occurred or, in the instance of a continuing offense, the date
2that charges under this Article are filed in a particular
3matter in the State of Illinois) or any act under the law of
4another jurisdiction for an offense that could be charged as a
5Class 2 felony or higher in this State:
6        (1) under the Criminal Code of 1961: 8-1.2
7    (solicitation of murder for hire), 9-1 (first degree
8    murder), 9-3.3 (drug-induced homicide), 10-1 (kidnapping),
9    10-2 (aggravated kidnapping), 10-3.1 (aggravated unlawful
10    restraint), 10-4 (forcible detention), 10-5(b)(10) (child
11    abduction), 10-9 (trafficking in persons, involuntary
12    servitude, and related offenses), 11-1.20 (criminal sexual
13    assault), 11-1.30 (aggravated criminal sexual assault),
14    11-1.40 (predatory criminal sexual assault of a child),
15    11-1.60 (aggravated criminal sexual abuse), 11-6 (indecent
16    solicitation of a child), 11-6.5 (indecent solicitation of
17    an adult), 11-14.3(a)(2)(A) and (a)(2)(B) (promoting
18    prostitution), 11-14.4 (promoting juvenile prostitution),
19    11-18.1 (patronizing a minor engaged in prostitution;
20    patronizing a juvenile prostitute), 12-3.05 (aggravated
21    battery), 12-6.4 (criminal street gang recruitment),
22    12-6.5 (compelling organization membership of persons),
23    12-7.3 (stalking), 12-7.4 (aggravated stalking), 12-7.5
24    (cyberstalking), 12-11 (home invasion), 12-11.1 (vehicular
25    invasion), 18-1 (robbery), 18-2 (armed robbery), 18-3
26    (vehicular hijacking), 18-4 (aggravated vehicular

 

 

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1    hijacking), 18-5 (aggravated robbery), 19-1 (burglary),
2    19-3 (residential burglary), 20-1 (arson), 20-1.1
3    (aggravated arson), 20-1.2 (residential arson), 20-1.3
4    (place of worship arson), 24-1.2 (aggravated discharge of a
5    firearm), 24-1.2-5 (aggravated discharge of a machine gun
6    or silencer equipped firearm), 24-1.8 (unlawful possession
7    of a firearm by a street gang member), 24-3.2 (unlawful
8    discharge of firearm projectiles), 24-3.9 (aggravated
9    possession of a stolen firearm), 24-3A (gunrunning), 26-5
10    (dog-fighting), 29D-14.9 (terrorism), 29D-15 (soliciting
11    support for terrorism), 29D-15.1 (causing a catastrophe),
12    29D-15.2 (possession of a deadly substance), 29D-20
13    (making a terrorist threat), 29D-25 (falsely making a
14    terrorist threat), 29D-29.9 (material support for
15    terrorism), 29D-35 (hindering prosecution of terrorism),
16    31A-1.2 (unauthorized contraband in a penal institution),
17    or 33A-3 (armed violence);
18        (2) under the Cannabis Control Act: Sections 5
19    (manufacture or delivery of cannabis), 5.1 (cannabis
20    trafficking), or 8 (production or possession of cannabis
21    plants), provided the offense either involves more than 500
22    grams of any substance containing cannabis or involves more
23    than 50 cannabis sativa plants;
24        (3) under the Illinois Controlled Substances Act:
25    Sections 401 (manufacture or delivery of a controlled
26    substance), 401.1 (controlled substance trafficking), 405

 

 

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1    (calculated criminal drug conspiracy), or 405.2 (street
2    gang criminal drug conspiracy); or
3        (4) under the Methamphetamine Control and Community
4    Protection Act: Sections 15 (methamphetamine
5    manufacturing), or 55 (methamphetamine delivery).
6    (f) "Pattern of predicate activity" means:
7        (1) at least 3 occurrences of predicate activity that
8    are in some way related to each other and that have
9    continuity between them, and that are separate acts. Acts
10    are related to each other if they are not isolated events,
11    including if they have similar purposes, or results, or
12    participants, or victims, or are committed a similar way,
13    or have other similar distinguishing characteristics, or
14    are part of the affairs of the same enterprise. There is
15    continuity between acts if they are ongoing over a
16    substantial period, or if they are part of the regular way
17    some entity does business or conducts its affairs; and
18        (2) which occurs after the effective date of this
19    Article, and the last of which falls within 3 years
20    (excluding any period of imprisonment) after the first
21    occurrence of predicate activity.
22    (g) "Unlawful death" includes the following offenses:
23under the Criminal Code of 1961: Sections 9-1 (first degree
24murder) or 9-2 (second degree murder).
 
25    (720 ILCS 5/33G-4 new)

 

 

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1    Sec. 33G-4. Prohibited activities.
2    (a) It is unlawful for any person, who intentionally
3participates in the operation or management of an enterprise,
4directly or indirectly, to:
5        (1) knowingly do so, directly or indirectly, through a
6    pattern of predicate activity;
7        (2) knowingly cause another to violate this Article; or
8        (3) knowingly conspire to violate this Article.
9    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any
10prosecution for a conspiracy to violate this Article, no person
11may be convicted of that conspiracy unless an overt act in
12furtherance of the agreement is alleged and proved to have been
13committed by him, her, or by a coconspirator, but the
14commission of the overt act need not itself constitute
15predicate activity underlying the specific violation of this
16Article.
17    (b) It is unlawful for any person knowingly to acquire or
18maintain, directly or indirectly, through a pattern of
19predicate activity any interest in, or control of, to any
20degree, of any enterprise, real property, or personal property
21of any character, including money.
22    (c) Nothing in this Article shall be construed as to make
23unlawful any activity which is arguably protected or prohibited
24by the National Labor Relations Act, the Illinois Educational
25Labor Relations Act, the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act,
26or the Railway Labor Act.

 

 

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1    (d) The following organizations, and any officer or agent
2of those organizations acting in his or her official capacity
3as an officer or agent, may not be sued in civil actions under
4this Article:
5        (1) a labor organization; or
6        (2) any business defined in Division D, E, F, G, H, or
7    I of the Standard Industrial Classification as established
8    by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S.
9    Department of Labor.
10    (e) Any person prosecuted under this Article may be
11convicted and sentenced either:
12        (1) for the offense of conspiring to violate this
13    Article, and for any other particular offense or offenses
14    that may be one of the objects of a conspiracy to violate
15    this Article; or
16        (2) for the offense of violating this Article, and for
17    any other particular offense or offenses that may
18    constitute predicate activity underlying a violation of
19    this Article.
20    (f) The State's Attorney, or a person designated by law to
21act for him or her and to perform his or her duties during his
22or her absence or disability, may authorize a criminal
23prosecution under this Article. Prior to any State's Attorney
24authorizing a criminal prosecution under this Article, the
25State's Attorney shall adopt rules and procedures governing the
26investigation and prosecution of any offense enumerated in this

 

 

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1Article. These rules and procedures shall set forth guidelines
2which require that any potential prosecution under this Article
3be subject to an internal approval process in which it is
4determined, in a written prosecution memorandum prepared by the
5State's Attorney's Office, that (1) a prosecution under this
6Article is necessary to ensure that the indictment adequately
7reflects the nature and extent of the criminal conduct involved
8in a way that prosecution only on the underlying predicate
9activity would not, and (2) a prosecution under this Article
10would provide the basis for an appropriate sentence under all
11the circumstances of the case in a way that a prosecution only
12on the underlying predicate activity would not. No State's
13Attorney, or person designated by law to act for him or her and
14to perform his or her duties during his or her absence or
15disability, may authorize a criminal prosecution under this
16Article prior to reviewing the prepared written prosecution
17memorandum. However, any internal memorandum shall remain
18protected from disclosure under the attorney-client privilege,
19and this provision does not create any enforceable right on
20behalf of any defendant or party, nor does it subject the
21exercise of prosecutorial discretion to judicial review.
22    (g) A labor organization and any officer or agent of that
23organization acting in his or her capacity as an officer or
24agent of the labor organization are exempt from prosecution
25under this Article.
 

 

 

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1    (720 ILCS 5/33G-5 new)
2    Sec. 33G-5. Penalties. Under this Article, notwithstanding
3any other provision of law:
4    (a) Any violation of subsection (a) of Section 33G-4 of
5this Article shall be sentenced as a Class X felony with a term
6of imprisonment of not less than 7 years and not more than 30
7years, or the sentence applicable to the underlying predicate
8activity, whichever is higher, and the sentence imposed shall
9also include restitution, and or a criminal fine, jointly and
10severally, up to $250,000 or twice the gross amount of any
11intended proceeds of the violation, if any, whichever is
12higher.
13    (b) Any violation of subsection (b) of Section 33G-4 of
14this Article shall be sentenced as a Class X felony, and the
15sentence imposed shall also include restitution, and or a
16criminal fine, jointly and severally, up to $250,000 or twice
17the gross amount of any intended proceeds of the violation, if
18any, whichever is higher.
19    (c) Wherever the unlawful death of any person or persons
20results as a necessary or natural consequence of any violation
21of this Article, the sentence imposed on the defendant shall
22include an enhanced term of imprisonment of at least 25 years
23up to natural life, in addition to any other penalty imposed by
24the court, provided:
25        (1) the death or deaths were reasonably foreseeable to
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1        (2) the death or deaths occurred when the defendant was
2    otherwise engaged in the violation of this Article as a
3    whole.
4    (d) A sentence of probation, periodic imprisonment,
5conditional discharge, impact incarceration or county impact
6incarceration, court supervision, withheld adjudication, or
7any pretrial diversionary sentence or suspended sentence, is
8not authorized for a violation of this Article.
 
9    (720 ILCS 5/33G-6 new)
10    Sec. 33G-6. Remedial proceedings, procedures, and
11forfeiture. Under this Article:
12    (a) The circuit court shall have jurisdiction to prevent
13and restrain violations of this Article by issuing appropriate
14orders, including:
15        (1) ordering any person to disgorge illicit proceeds
16    obtained by a violation of this Article or divest himself
17    or herself of any interest, direct or indirect, in any
18    enterprise or real or personal property of any character,
19    including money, obtained, directly or indirectly, by a
20    violation of this Article;
21        (2) imposing reasonable restrictions on the future
22    activities or investments of any person or enterprise,
23    including prohibiting any person or enterprise from
24    engaging in the same type of endeavor as the person or
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1        (3) ordering dissolution or reorganization of any
2    enterprise, making due provision for the rights of innocent
3    persons.
4    (b) Any violation of this Article is subject to the
5remedies, procedures, and forfeiture as set forth in
6subsections (f) through (s) of Section 29B-1 of this Code.
 
7    (720 ILCS 5/33G-7 new)
8    Sec. 33G-7. Construction. In interpreting the provisions
9of this Article, the court shall construe them in light of the
10applicable model jury instructions set forth in the Federal
11Criminal Jury Instructions for the Seventh Circuit (1999) for
12Title IX of Public Law, 91-452, 84 Stat. 922 (as amended in
13Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1961 through 1968),
14except to the extent that it is inconsistent with the plain
15language of this Article.
 
16    (720 ILCS 5/33G-8 new)
17    Sec. 33G-8. Limitations. Under this Article,
18notwithstanding any other provision of law, but otherwise
19subject to the periods of exclusion from limitation as provided
20in Section 3-7 of this Code, the following limitations apply:
21    (a) Any action, proceeding, or prosecution brought under
22this Article must commence within 5 years of one of the
23following dates, whichever is latest:
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1    of predicate activity in a pattern of that activity, in the
2    form of an act underlying the alleged violation of this
3    Article; or
4        (2) in the case of an action, proceeding, or
5    prosecution, based upon a conspiracy to violate this
6    Article, the date that the last objective of the alleged
7    conspiracy was accomplished, defeated or abandoned
8    (whichever is later); or
9        (3) the date any minor victim of the violation attains
10    the age of 18 years or the date any victim of the violation
11    subject to a legal disability thereafter gains legal
12    capacity.
13    (b) Any action, proceeding, or prosecution brought under
14this Article may be commenced at any time against all
15defendants if the conduct of any defendant, or any part of the
16overall violation, resulted in the unlawful death of any person
17or persons.
 
18    (720 ILCS 5/33G-9 new)
19    Sec. 33G-9. Repeal. This Article is repealed 5 years after
20it becomes law.
 
21    Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
22becoming law.