AMERICAN BANKERS INS. CO. v. FIRST UNION NAT. BANK

No. 88-201-CIV-5.

699 F.Supp. 1174 (1988)

AMERICAN BANKERS INSURANCE COMPANY OF FLORIDA, INC.; American Bankers Life Assurance Company, Inc.; American Bankers Insurance Group, Inc.; and American Bankers Financial Services, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. FIRST UNION NATIONAL BANK OF NORTH CAROLINA; Conner Corporation; CHC Financial Corporation; Conner Financial Corporation; CH Financial Corporation; Cardinal Savings Bank, Inc.; Wallace J. Conner; Larry M. Dinkins; Smith Helms Mulliss & Moore; Peat Marwick Main & Co.; Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc.; Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton; Interstate Securities, Inc.; and Standard & Poors Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. North Carolina, Raleigh Division.

September 2, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew v. Tramont, Jr., Tew, Jorden, Schulte & Beasley, Miami, Fla., Sally A. Conti, Mount, White, Hutson & Carden, Durham, N.C., James F. Jorden, Jose Garcia-Pedrosa, Tew, Jorden & Schulte, Miami, Fla., for plaintiffs.

Carl N. Patterson, Jr., Martha Jones Mason, Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, Raleigh, N.C., for First Union Nat. Bank of N.C.

Brad Fute W. Davenport, Jr., M. Scott Hart, Mays & Valentine, Richmond, Va., for Wallace J. Conner.

Daniel W. Fouts, Joseph W. Moss, Adams, Kleemeier, Hagan, Hannah & Fouts, Greensboro, N.C., for defendant Dinkins.

Dan J. McLamb, Yates, Fleishman, McLamb & Weyher, Raleigh, N.C., for Smith Helms Mulliss & Moore.

Dan M. Hartzog, Patterson, Dilthey, Clay, Cranfill, Sumner & Hartzog, Raleigh, N.C., for Peat Marwick Main & Co.

Charles Gordon Brown, William D. Bernard, Faison & Brown, Durham, N.C., for Cardinal Sav. Bank, Inc.

J. Larkin Pahl, Smith, Debnam, Hibbert & Pahl, Raleigh, N.C., for Conner Corp., CHC Financial Corp., Conner Financial Corp., and CH Financial Corp.


ORDER

MALCOLM J. HOWARD, District Judge.

This matter is before the court on the motion of the defendants, First Union National Bank of North Carolina; Smith, Helms, Mulliss and Moore; Peat, Marwick, Main and Company; Wallace Conner; and Larry Dinkins, to dismiss the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization, (hereinafter "RICO"), counts contained in Counts XIX, XX, XXI and XXII of the ABIC complaint. For the reasons set forth below, this court, after...

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