Racketeering is a defined term in the RICO act. It is the conduct of an Enterprise (another defined term) through a pattern of “racketeering activity”. A “pattern” requires more than one act. Racketeering activity is a list of around 20 different crimes, including murder, arson, extortion, assault, bribery, and many others. The easiest one to use is mail or wire fraud. Any use of the mails or telephone system (or now, the internet) in furtherance of the commission of a crime is a separate crime.
Use of RICO to prosecute those leading a political party through the use of mail and wire fraud (fraudulent ballots, illegal donations for example) would be easy. You have to prove that the individual committed an act in furtherance of the enterprise, not that they knew about and approved all the bad things the enterprise did, just that they did something in furtherance of the enterprise.
I would probably define the RICO enterprise not as the Democrat enterprise per se, but as a cabal within the Democrat party that is running it to get wealthy, gain offices illegally, harm their enemies, etc. It’s like when the mob ran a union, the union and its members weren’t responsible, but the mobsters using the union were.
but as a cabal within the Democrat party that is running it to get wealthy, gain offices illegally, harm their enemies, etc.
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makes you wonder - where does all that fundraising money actually go?? That’s a lot of money to spread around..
we know the Mooch’s friend got the IT contract to set up and screw up OCare, but that was after the election...
Thanks, good info.
Another thing I learned about RICO is that it allows them to get bosses who ordered things be done but didn’t do them personally. That could open up the potential of indicting people like Brennan and Comey, whose jobs gave them immense flexibility and deniability.
It certainly sounds like RICO could be applied, but as I said, I didn’t see any examples of RICO cases based on political corruption. But if it could be proven that a leak of classified information occurred (which is a crime) and that that someone like Comey approved or ordered it, then RICO might be a way to get him if a pattern of such actions can be proved.