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Cite as: 529 U. S. 494 (2000)

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Opinion of the Court

Section 1962, in turn, consists of four subsections: Subsection
(a) makes it “unlawful for any person who has received any
income derived, directly or indirectly, from a pattern of rack-
eteering activity or through collection of an unlawful debt . . .
to use or invest, directly or indirectly, any part of such in-
come, or the proceeds of such income, in acquisition of any
interest in, or the establishment or operation of, any enter-
prise which is engaged in, or the activities of which affect,
interstate or foreign commerce”; 2 subsection (b) makes it
“unlawful for any person through a pattern of racketeering
activity or through collection of an unlawful debt to acquire
or maintain, directly or indirectly, any interest in or control
of any enterprise which is engaged in, or the activities of
which affect, interstate or foreign commerce”; subsection (c)
makes it “unlawful for any person employed by or associated
with any enterprise engaged in, or the activities of which
affect, interstate or foreign commerce, to conduct or partici-
pate, directly or indirectly, in the conduct of such enterprise’s
affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity or collec-
tion of unlawful debt”; and, ﬁnally, subsection (d) makes it
unlawful “for any person to conspire to violate any of the
provisions of subsection (a), (b), or (c) of this section.”

B

Petitioner, Robert A. Beck II, is a former president, CEO,
director, and shareholder of Southeastern Insurance Group
(SIG).3 Respondents, Ronald M. Prupis, Leonard Bellezza,

2 Section 1961(1) contains an exhaustive list of acts of “racketeering,”
commonly referred to as “predicate acts.” This list includes extortion,
mail fraud, and wire fraud, which were among the 50 separate acts of
racketeering alleged by petitioner. Section 1961(4) deﬁnes “enterprise”
as “any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal en-
tity, and any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not
a legal entity.”

3 On review of the Court of Appeals’ afﬁrmance of summary judgment
for respondents, we accept as true the evidence presented by petitioner.
Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U. S. 242, 255 (1986).