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'Racketeering activity' is broadly defined to encompass a variety of state and federal offenses including, inter alia, murder, kidnapping, gambling, arson, robbery, bribery and extortion. See 18 U.S.C. § 1961(1). A ''pattern of racketeering activity' requires at least two acts of racketeering activity, one of which occurred after the effective date of this chapter and the last of which occurred within ten years . . . after the commission of a prior act of racketeering activity.' 18 U.S.C. § 1961(5). RICO defines a 'pattern of racketeering activity' as requiring 'at least two acts of racketeering activity' committed in a 10-year period. 18 U.S.C. § ...