Exhibit 206 · Judicial opinion
United States v. Philip Morris USA Inc.: Amended Final Opinion
the Government has established that Defendants (1) have conspired together to violate the substantive provisions of RICO, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (d), and (2) have in fact violated those provisions of the statute, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1962 (c).
Finds a tobacco-industry racketeering conspiracy and reconstructs its public statements and internal practices.
- Source
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; Judge Gladys Kessler
- Date
- 17 August 2006; amended opinion filed 8 September 2006
- Quoted from
- Amended Final Opinion, Part I.A Overview, p. 2 (PDF p. 32 of 1682)
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.justice.gov/civil/cases/tobacco2/amended%20opinion.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-09
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- Further exact wording (Findings of Fact, paragraph 726, from an internal Brown & Williamson document titled 'Smoking and Health Proposal'): 'Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the mind of the general public. It is also a means of establishing a controversy.'