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LOL; good products for poisonous red-GREENery, but lets try this one recommended by John Conyers til the "powers that be" told him they like the view just the way it is.

(from BuffaloJack's url:)

RICO!!!!!!!!

The Agarwal Memo addressed the criminal provisions of RICO under 18 U.S.C.

§1962. The criminal RICO statute instructs:

It shall be unlawful for any person employed by or associated with any enterprise engaged in, or the activities of which affect, interstate or foreign commerce, to conduct or participate, directly or indirectly, in the conduct of such enterprise's affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity or collection of unlawful debt. 421

According to the Agarwal Memo, ACORN can be easily established as an “enterprise” under the RICO statute “as that term is defined to include ‘any individual, partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity, and any union or group of individuals associated in fact although not a legal entity[.]’” 422 The Memo also held, “we should be able to demonstrate that [ACORN’s] racketeering constitutes a ‘pattern’ which, under the statute, is ‘at least two acts of racketeering activity,’” 423

The Agarwal Memo claimed ACORN’s activities constituted “racketeering” under §1341 (mail fraud) and §1343 (wire fraud) of the code. 424