577 n. 29 (3d Cir.1991) (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). Likewise, a RICO conspiracy under § 1962(d) requires only that the defendant was “aware of the essential nature and scope of the enterprise and intended to participate in it.” Fernandez, 388 F.3d at 1230 (citation and internal quotation marks omitted). “[T]he point of making the government show that the defendants ha[d] some knowledge of the nature of the enterprise[] is to avoid an unjust association of the defendant with the crimes of others.” United States v. Brandao, 539 F.3d 44, 52 (1st Cir.2008). Nonetheless, the definition of a RICO enterprise has “wide reach” and is to be “liberally construed to effectuate its remedial purposes.” Boyle, 556 U.S. at 944-45, 129 S.Ct. 2237 (internal quotation marks omitted) (<HOLDING>). As the First Circuit has explained, “[t]he
holding that the person charged with violating  1962c must be distinct from the rico enterprise holding that a rico enterprise does not need to have a formal businesslike structure or hierarchy holding that to constitute an enterprise under rico the enterprises structure must provide some mechanism for controlling and directing the affairs of the group on an ongoing rather than an ad hoc basis holding that predicate acts need not be in furtherance of the enterprise holding that an enterprise under rico need not have a businesslike structure and can have a rather informal organization