Also, you can get RICO if there is no financial gain. Again, “RICO laws were successfully cited in NOW v. Scheidler, 510 U.S. 249, 114 S. Ct. 798, 127 L.Ed. 2d 99 (1994), a suit in which certain parties, including the National Organization for Women, sought damages and an injunction against pro-life activists who physically block access to abortion clinics. The Court held that a RICO enterprise does not need an economic motive, and that the Pro-Life Action Network could therefore qualify as a RICO enterprise. The Court remanded for consideration of whether PLAN committed the requisite acts in a pattern of racketeering activity.”
It all comes together in the Hobbs Act. So far I haven’t seen anything in any of this that suggests a pattern of behavior sufficient to justify invoking RICO. Besides, no one has been convicted of anything, and ACORN has no elemental right to a federal appropriation.
I’m all for connecting the dots but, with all due respect, you’re connecting dots that simply aren’t there. You should get off the “if this then that” train and wait for more real information before rushing to an James O’Keefe RICO conviction. You simply have no basis in fact for that right now.