What's happening
This bill adds animal fighting as a criminal act under enterprise corruption laws in New York.
Why it matters
Expanding enterprise corruption laws to include animal fighting treats organized animal fighting rings with the same seriousness as other criminal enterprises. (like racketeering, drug trafficking, and securities fraud), making it easier to prosecute and dismantle these operations.
Individuals involved in animal fighting can now face harsher penalties. , including the severe sentences and asset forfeiture associated with enterprise corruption convictions, which could deter participation and disrupt financing of such activities.
Law enforcement agencies will have expanded investigative and prosecutorial tools. (such as wiretaps or broader conspiracy charges) to pursue not just those directly involved in animal fighting, but also anyone profiting from or facilitating these criminal enterprises.
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Who cares
Prosecutors
The bill would add felony animal-fighting offenses under Agriculture and Markets Law section 351(2) to the criminal acts that can support an enterprise corruption case.
Animal-fighting defendants and defense attorneys
Qualifying animal-fighting felonies could serve as underlying criminal acts in enterprise corruption prosecutions.
Animal welfare advocates
The bill would expand the enterprise corruption law to cover specified felony animal-fighting offenses.
Headline styles
Ban Animal Fighting Corruption
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Sponsors
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History
- Referred to codes
- Referred to codes
Companion bill
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Ban Animal Fighting in Gangs
In Senate Committee · Codes · Sponsor Phil Boyle
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2509
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to adding animal fighting as a criminal act when referring to enterprise corruption
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 460.10 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 442 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
(b) Any felony set forth elsewhere in the laws of this state and defined by the tax law relating to alcoholic beverage, cigarette, gasoline and similar motor fuel taxes; article seventy-one of the environmental conservation law relating to water pollution, hazardous waste or substances hazardous or acutely hazardous to public health or safety of the environment; article twenty-three-A of the general business law relating to prohibited acts concerning stocks, bonds and other securities, article twenty-two of the general business law concerning monopolies; subdivision two of section three hundred fifty-one of the agriculture and markets law.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04328-01-9
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