A civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act case filed by a man who claimed his daughter and son-in-law sabotaged his business by embezzling company funds and diverting them to their own business can move forward, a federal judge has ruled.

U.S. District Judge Mark Kearney of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied Michael and Nina Kaplan's motion to dismiss Ted Levy's RICO claims.

Levy, the retired owner of a beauty products store, hired his son-in-law, Michael Kaplan, to manage it in 2010. Levy's daughter, Nina Kaplan, opened her own beauty business, BLC Beauty Inc.