context: Plaintiffs complain of injury resulting from defendant's capping program as a whole. The capping program, in turn, was furthered by defendant's predicate racketeering acts, Complaint 1124; however, it was more than merely a series of violations of the mail and wire fraud statutes. What injured plaintiffs was not any one particular letter or telephone call, but the underlying scheme as a whole, which enabled defendant to perpetrate an ongoing systematic corporate-survival strategy to violate plaintiffs' hard-earned rights to employee benefits, in violation of ERISA. As such, plaintiff has adequately alleged injury beyond that caused by the predicate acts of mail and wire fraud.
citation_a.signal: cf.
citation_a.identifier: 741 F.2d 517, 517
citation_a.parenthetical: racketeering related injury stems from the pattern of racketeering activity and not the predicate acts themselves
citation_a.sentence: Cf., Bankers Trust Co. v. Rhoades, supra, 741 F.2d at 517 (racketeering related injury stems from the pattern of racketeering activity and not the predicate acts themselves).
citation_b.signal: see
citation_b.identifier: 742 F.2d 413, 413
citation_b.parenthetical: racketeering related injury alleged as a result of a pattern of mail and wire fraud
citation_b.sentence: See, e.g., Alexander Grant, supra, 742 F.2d at 413 (racketeering related injury alleged as a result of a pattern of mail and wire fraud); Beth Israel Medical Center v. Smith, 576 F.Supp. 1061, 1070 (S.D.N.Y.1983) (plaintiffs’ injuries the result of a “pervasive, ongoing and debilitating” scheme “not confined to specific monetary losses resulting from discrete acts of mail and wire fraud”).