allude to the other Morgan factors, such as the number of victims or the variety of the acts. See Swistock v. Jones, 884 F.2d 755, 758 (3d Cir.1989) (noting that the “Supreme Court made no explicit reference in H.J. Inc. to the number of victims or the number of perpetrators as relevant factors in its discussion of continuity, despite the fact that all of Northwestern Bell’s customers were arguable victims of the alleged scheme to raise rates.”). H.J. ’s approach leads to the conclusion that a plaintiff who alleges a high number of related predicate acts committed over a substantial period of time establishes that those acts amount to continued criminal activity, irrespective of the other Roe-der/Morgan factors. See Walk v. Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 890 F.2d 688, 690 (4th Cir.1989) (<HOLDING>) (quoting H.J., 109 S.Ct. at 2902). Here, Fleet
holding that a plaintiffs retaliation claim is cognizable even in the absence of protected activity as long as his employer perceived him to be engaged in such activity holding that in light of hj inc s special emphasis on the sheer duration of criminal activity  we conclude that activity continuing as alleged here for a period of ten years must be considered to have extended over a substantial period of time hence to constitute long term conduct meeting the pattern requirement holding that to prevail under civil rico plaintiff must prove that defendants participated in the conduct of an enterprise through a pattern of racketeering activity holding that a sentence to a term of imprisonment ten years greater than the applicable maximum affected the defendants substantial rights holding that for recovery under the mississippi tort claims act to be barred because of a victims criminal activity at the time of the injury it must beshown that the criminal activity has some causal nexus to the wrongdoing of the tortfeasor