Masters v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• holding that, when defendants committed overt acts in furtherance of their express original agreement to indefinitely conceal the murder, conspiracy to commit murder and to conceal a crime did not end with consummation of the murder
• noting that under the RICO statute an enterprise can have diverse objects and that there is rarely a problem determining that the diverse acts of a criminal conspiracy, as opposed to the acts of a predominantly legitimate enterprise, satisfy the statutory requirements
• discussing withdrawal as a “term of art in the law of conspiracy”
• district court must make findings on factors such as burden on defendant’s family before imposing fine
• an association in fact may be composed of a consortium of organizations
• joint and several liability under RICO