To prevail on a civil rico claim a plaintiff must identify a culpable person who actually committed the rico violation or conspired to do so however under the rico statute the culpable person can be any individual or entity capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property the plaintiff must also be able to demonstrate that the culpable person possessed the mental state required to commit the alleged predicate offenses in other words it must be shown that the . Civil rico elements as explained by law360com courts are quick to dismiss frivolous rico allegations at an early stage of the litigation a civil rico plaintiff cannot simply allege garden variety fraud it must allege the following three things the defendant committed a substantive rico violation per 18 usc section 1962. Civil rico case statement order order no it is ordered the proponent of the civil rico claim shall file and serve within days of a case statement that shall include the facts relied on to initiate the rico claim in particular the statement shall use the numbers and letters set forth below unless filed as part of an amended and restated pleading in which latter case the allegations of the amended and restated pleading shall reasonably follow the organization set out below and . Rico law or the racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act is a law that allows the government to punish individuals associated with criminal activity specifically the leaders of crime organizations before rico law existed crime bosses would order their minions to carry out crimes for them and claim innocence if the police found out their argument was that technically no one could prosecute them for crimes like murder because they werent the ones doing the killing