TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
Mario Morales was a crooked Chicago police officer who soiled his badge by ripping off drug dealers. The means to that end—described in an indictment alleging a federal RICO violation, see 18 U.S.C. § 1962(d)—were fairly simple, and for our purposes we recount just one of his brazen acts of criminality.
On a May day in 2001, Morales, cloaked in the trappings of a narcotics officer— police badge...
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