innocent investors and competing organizations, interfere with free competition, seriously burden interstate and foreign commerce, threaten the domestic security, and undermine the general welfare of the Nation and its citizens; and (5) organized crime continues to grow because of defects in the evidence-gathering process of the law inhibiting the development of the legally admissible evidence necessary to bring criminal and other sanctions or remedies to bear on the unlawful activities of those engaged in organized crime and because the sanctions and remedies available to the Government are unnecessarily limited in scope and impact.
It is the purpose of this Act to seek the eradication of organized crime in the United States by strengthening the legal tools in the evidence-gathering process, by establishing new penal prohibitions, and by providing enhancedresidents of the John Knox Village retirement community. They sued the Village, various officers and directors, its founder, mortgage lender, insurance company, former accountant and attorneys, alleging, inter alia, fraud, breaches of fiduciary duties and a RICO claim. 685 F.2d at 1057. An Entrance Endowment paid by those wishing to live in the Village entitled them to a specified apartment for life. An additional monthly charge covered food, laundry, medical services, transportation and building maintenance. The alleged fraud surrounded defendants promise of "affordable life care" and misrepresentations with respect to the financial well being of the Village, which was, at the time of suit, on the verge of bankruptcy. Id. at 1056-57. The complaint depicted the Village as "pervasively fraudulent." Id. at 1060. This allegation parallels the averred