R.I.C.O In the 1931 Hollywood film, Little Caesar, Edward G. Robinson, playing the role of Caesar Enrico Bandello (a.k.a. Rico), dies at the hands of the police while uttering his last words: "Is this the end of Rico?" While Rico's career in organized crime had been terminated, the film's implied message is that the mob survived as a never-ending circulation of brotherhood. The methods employed by police to put an end to organized crime are shown to be quite ineffective. The police simply wait out the gang hoping that one of the mobsters will grow tired of the rackets and willingly become an informant on his fellow gangsters. What our cities need, according to the movie's forward, is a more effective way of eliminating organized crime. Some have suggested that the acronym RICO had its origins in the Edward G. Robinson character (Greek 1991). S....

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