We find it difficult to believe that a metropolitan Chicago employer can employ a work force almost exclusively made up of Spanish-speaking men of Mexican origin at wages within pennies of the minimum wage (and at hard and unappetizing work) without even suspecting that some of these employees are illegal aliens.

N.L.R.B. v. Sure Tan, Inc., 672 F.2d 592, 601 n. 14 (7th Cir. 1982)

Howard is clearly doing some of the most cutting-edge RICO work of any lawyer I know in the country, and I know most of them.

Professor G. Robert Blakey, Notre Dame Law School and former Chief Counsel of the Senate Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedure, which drafted the RICO statute in 1969-70

Our History of Success

Howard Foster, a RICO Attorney for most of his career, has achieved extraordinary results for his clients. His appellate victories created new legal causes of action. He has resolved cases that other lawyers refused to pursue achieving credibility in the federal judiciary.   His RICO cases are treated fairly and not with the hostility exhibited by many judges handling civil RICO lawsuits. Here are some of our famous and recent wins.

Individual/Business RICO Cases

Matteo Gutter Systems, Inc. v. Millenia Housing Management Ltd., 2009 WL 3245437 (N.D. Ohio 2009). View PDF

Flag Co. v. Maynard, 2006 WL 1030173 (D. Or. 2006)

Commercial Cleaning Services, LLC v. Colin Service Systems, Inc., 271 F.3d 374 (2d Cir. 2001)

RICO Class Actions

Brewer v. Salyer, 1:06-CV-01324 (E.D.Cal. 2006)

Williams v. Mohawk Industries, Inc., 465 F.3d 1277 (11th Cir. 2006); 568 F.3d 1350 (11th Cir. 2009)(reversing denial of class certification) View PDF.

Cunningham v. Offshore Specialty Fabricators, Inc., 543 F. Supp.2d 614 (E.D. Tex. 2008)

Mendoza v. Zirkle Fruit Co., Inc., 301 F.3d 1163 (9th Cir. 2002); 222 F.R.D. 439 (E.D. Wash. 2004)(granting class certification)