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CITY OF MILWAUKEE v. UNIVERSAL MORTG. CORP.

No. 88-C-0075.

692 F.Supp. 992 (1988)

CITY OF MILWAUKEE, Community Housing Preservation Corporation, and Neighborhood Improvement Development Corporation, Plaintiffs, v. UNIVERSAL MORTGAGE CORPORATION, a Wisconsin corporation; Grootemaat Corporation, a Wisconsin corporation; Marshall & Ilsley Corporation, a Wisconsin corporation; M & I Grootemaat Mortgage Corporation, a Wisconsin corporation; Fleet Mortgage Corporation, a Wisconsin corporation; James Lunz, individually and d/b/a Robert J. Lunz Company; Martin-Foster, Incorporated; Robert W. Hoag; Robert W. Hoag Company, Incorporated, a Wisconsin corporation; Robert A. Hoag; Gary Zirzow; Terry Gustafson; Les Simon; Preferred Real Estate Investment of Milwaukee, a Wisconsin corporation; Laurence Granof; Tom Frenkel; Mighty Company, Incorporated, a Wisconsin corporation; Randall Stein; Larry F. Buzzell; Richard E. Van Meter; and American Heritage Investments, Incorporated, a Wisconsin corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Wisconsin.

August 19, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Erickson, Milwaukee, Wis., for defendants Gary Zirzow & Terry Gustafson.

Thomas R. Schrimpg, Kluwin, Dunphy, Hinshaw & Culbertson, Milwaukee, Wis., for defendant Robert A. Hoag.

Grant Langley, Rudolph Conrad, Scott Thomas, Office of The City Atty., Robert H. Friebert, David P. Lowe, Friebert, Finerty & St. John, Milwaukee, Wis., for plaintiffs.

William R. Wherry, William J. Mulligan, William Sosnay, Mulcahy & Wherry, Milwaukee, Wis., for defendant Universal Mortg. Corp.

William R. Steinmetz, Allen N. Rieselbach, Steven P. Bogart, Reinhart, Boerner, Van Deuren, Norris & Rieselbach, Milwaukee, Wis., for defendant Grootemaat Corp.

William H. Levit, Jr., Michael Ash, Michael B. Apfeld, Godfrey & Kahn, Milwaukee, Wis., for defendants Marshall & Ilsley Corp., & M & I Grootemaat Mortg. Corp.

Thomas L. Shriner, Jr., Richard M. Esenberg, Michael G. McCarty, Foley & Lardner, Milwaukee, Wis., for defendant Fleet Mortg. Corp.

DECISION AND ORDER

WARREN, Chief Judge.

The racketeering laws (RICO) of both the United States and the State of Wisconsin provide that "any person" injured by violations of RICO laws may sue and recover either triple (U.S.) or double (Wisconsin) damages. This broad language, however, has been tempered by the judicial belief that, in a philosophical sense, the consequences of an act go forward like ripples in a pond and extending liability for RICO violations...

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