The Organized Crime Control Act of 1970 was a Congressional bill signed into law by U.S. PresidentRichard M. Nixon. It prohibits the creation or management of a gambling organization involving 5 or more people, granted it has been in business more than 30 days or accumulates $2000 in gross revenue in a single day. It also gave grand juries new powers, permitted detention of unmanageable witnesses, and gave the attorney general authorization to protect witnesses, both state and federal, and their families. This last measure helped lead to the creation of WITSEC, an acronym for witness security.
The OrganizedCrimeControlAct (U.S.) defines organizedcrime as "The unlawful activities of...
The act of engaging in criminal activity as a structured group is referred to in the U.S. as racketeering.
In addition to what is considered traditional organizedcrime involving direct crimes of fraud swindles, scams, racketeering and other RICO predicate acts motivated for the accumulation of monetary gain, there is also non-traditional organizedcrime which is engaged in for political or ideological gain or acceptance.
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