and wife where defendants allegedly transferred stolen assets to United States), cert, denied, 490 U.S. 1035, 109 S.Ct. 1933, 104 L.Ed.2d 404 (1989); Bank of Crete, S.A. v. Koskotas, No. 88 CIV. 8412, 1991 WL 177287 at *6 (S.D.N.Y. Aug.30,1991)(illicit transfers to defendant’s personal accounts in New York served as predicate acts justifying RICO subject matter jurisdiction). Accordingly, Ms. Madanes’ allegations regarding Swansea and Niwer, when coupled with her claim that the attendant communications among the Defendants constituted predicate acts of mail and wire fraud, demonstrate for the limited purposes of this motion that conduct material to the completion of fraud occurred in the United States. Thai Airways, 842 F.Supp. at 1571; see Alfadda v. Fenn, 935 F.2d 475, 480 (2d Cir.) (<HOLDING>), cert. denied, 502 U.S. 1005, 112 S.Ct. 638,
holding that conspiracies can serve as predicate acts for a rico conspiracy holding that a purchase agreement for a foreign corporations stock is not subject to section 10b even if the closing occurred in the united states holding that predicate acts of securities fraud which occurred primarily in united states served as sufficient basis for rico subject matter jurisdiction in suit between predominantly foreign parties holding united states government is immune from rico suit holding that a state securities claim which alleged federal mail wire and securities violations as the predicate acts did not arise under federal law and thus did not create federal jurisdiction