Capone got it via the IRS. RICO came about in 1970
Capone got it via the IRS. RICO came about in 1970
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ThankQ. My mistake. It was Whitey Bulger. I recall reading that RICO would be good in these instances (e.g., Weinstein) because it captures so many in the net and demonstrates the organization fields the criminals, instead of a more whack-a-mole approach.
This from Wikipedia about RICO:
“The RICO Act focuses specifically on racketeering and allows the leaders of a syndicate to be tried for the crimes they ordered others to do or assisted them in doing, closing a perceived loophole that allowed a person who instructed someone else to, for example, murder, to be exempt from the trial because they did not actually commit the crime personally.”