18 U.S.C. § 1959 : US Code - Section 1959: Violent crimes in aid of racketeering activity

Search 18 U.S.C. § 1959 : US Code - Section 1959: Violent crimes in aid of racketeering activity

(a) Whoever, as consideration for the receipt of, or as
consideration for a promise or agreement to pay, anything of
pecuniary value from an enterprise engaged in racketeering
activity, or for the purpose of gaining entrance to or maintaining
or increasing position in an enterprise engaged in racketeering
activity, murders, kidnaps, maims, assaults with a dangerous
weapon, commits assault resulting in serious bodily injury upon, or
threatens to commit a crime of violence against any individual in
violation of the laws of any State or the United States, or
attempts or conspires so to do, shall be punished -
(1) for murder, by death or life imprisonment, or a fine under
this title, or both; and for kidnapping, by imprisonment for any
term of years or for life, or a fine under this title, or both;
(2) for maiming, by imprisonment for not more than thirty years
or a fine under this title, or both;
(3) for assault with a dangerous weapon or assault resulting in
serious bodily injury, by imprisonment for not more than twenty
years or a fine under this title, or both;
(4) for threatening to commit a crime of violence, by
imprisonment for not more than five years or a fine under this
title, or both;
(5) for attempting or conspiring to commit murder or
kidnapping, by imprisonment for not more than ten years or a fine
under this title, or both; and
(6) for attempting or conspiring to commit a crime involving
maiming, assault with a dangerous weapon, or assault resulting in
serious bodily injury, by imprisonment for not more than three
years or a fine of (!1) under this title, or both.
(b) As used in this section -
(1) "racketeering activity" has the meaning set forth in
section 1961 of this title; and
(2) "enterprise" includes any partnership, corporation,
association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of
individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity, which
is engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or
foreign commerce.