Huawei, the racketeers

*I wonder how many other multi-billion dollar enterprises have been racketeers.

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6775682/Huawei-Superseding-Indictment.pdf

COUNT ONE (Racketeering Conspiracy)

88. The allegations contained in paragraphs one through 87 are realleged and incorporated as if fully set forth in this paragraph.

89. At all times relevant to this Superseding Indictment, HUAWEI and its parents, global affiliates and subsidiaries, including HUAWEI DEVICE, HUAWEI DEVICE USA, FUTUREWEI and SKYCOM, constituted an “enterprise,” as defined in Title 18, United States Code, Section 1961(4), that is, a group of legal entities associated in fact (hereinafter, the “Huawei Enterprise”). The Huawei Enterprise was engaged in, and its activities affected, interstate and foreign commerce.

90. The principal purpose of the Huawei Enterprise was to grow the global “Huawei” brand into one of the most powerful telecommunications equipment and consumer electronics companies in the world by entering, developing and dominating the markets for telecommunications and consumer electronics technology and services in each of the countries in which the Huawei Enterprise operated.

91. The Huawei Enterprise operated in the Eastern District of New York, the Central District of California, the District of Columbia, the District of Delaware, the District of New Jersey, the Eastern District of Texas, the Northern District of California, the Northern District of Illinois, the Northern District of Texas, the Southern District of California, the Southern District of New York, the Western District of New York, the Western District of Washington and elsewhere, including overseas.

92. In or about and between 1999 to the present, both dates being approximate and inclusive, within the Eastern District of New York and elsewhere, the defendants HUAWEI, HUAWEI DEVICE USA and FUTUREWEI, together with others, did knowingly and intentionally conspire to violate Title 18, United States Code, Section 1962(a), that is, to use and invest, directly and indirectly, a part of income and the proceeds of income, to wit: income received by HUAWEI, HUAWEI DEVICE USA and FUTUREWEI and derived, directly and indirectly, from a pattern of racketeering activity, in which HUAWEI, HUAWEI DEVICE USA and FUTUREWEI participated as principals within the meaning of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2, in the establishment and operation of the Huawei Enterprise, an enterprise that engaged in, and the activities of which affected, interstate and foreign commerce.
93. The pattern of racketeering activity, as defined in Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1961(1) and 1961(5), consisted of multiple acts indictable under Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1343 (relating to wire fraud), 1344 (relating to financial institution fraud), 1503 (relating to obstruction of justice), 1512 (relating to tampering with a witness, victim or an informant), 1832 (relating to theft of trade secrets), 1956 (relating to the laundering of monetary instruments), and 2319 (relating to criminal infringement of a copyright). The manner and means of the above-described conspiracy include the allegations set forth in paragraphs one through 87, which are realleged and incorporated as if fully set forth in this paragraph.
(Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1962(d) and 3551 et seq.)

COUNT TWO (Conspiracy to Steal Trade Secrets)...