Circuit has noted, “[cjommon sense suggests that the existence of an association-in-fact is often-times more readily proven by what it does, rather than by abstract analysis of its structure.” Coo-nan, 938 F.2d at 1559 (emphasis in original) (internal citations and quotation marks omitted). The evidence at trial clearly established that the drug taxing and drug trafficking conspiracies were undertaken by individuals on behalf of the enterprise, and were in fact an integral part of the conduct of the Erne’s affairs. Additionally, the murder conspiracies were proof of the existence of an enterprise, because the dispute was between different factions of the enterprise struggling for position within and control of the organization. Cf. United States v. Amato, 15 F.3d 230, 234 (2d Cir.1994) (<HOLDING>). In this case there was evidence of more than
holding civil factual sufficiency preservation requirements do not apply in criminal context holding in context of criminal prosecution of members of one faction within a criminal enterprise that rivalry and dissension however violent do not necessarily signify dissolution of a conspiracy holding probation revocation is not a stage of a criminal prosecution holding that simultaneous civil and related criminal proceedings do not constitute unfairness and want of consideration of justice requiring reversal of a criminal conviction holding that in the conviction and sentencing for criminal offenses committed in the course of one criminal episode it is the intent of the legislature that there be a separate conviction and sentence for each criminal offense unless one of the offenses is a degree of the other a necessarily included lesser offense subsumed in the other or both offenses are identical