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To: Liz

They both need to see jail time and have a large chunk of their ill gotten gain confiscated. That would/will be good for our nation.

If public school “teachers” in Atlanta can be busted, so can the Clintons.


29 posted on 04/22/2015 7:01:39 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: FreeAtlanta
They need to see jail time and a large chunk of their ill-gotten gain confiscated. If public school “teachers” in Atlanta can be busted, so can the Clintons.

G-r-e-a-t point.....use the Atlanta approach--RICO---to nail 'em.

So how did Atlanta educators get nailed under RICO?

Rhonda Cook one of the ace AJC reporters who bird-dogged the story reported: The 1980 Georgia General Assembly was concerned about “the increasing sophistication of various criminal elements,” so it adopted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), patterned after a similar federal law.

RICO is often used to try to prove that a legal business was being used for illegal means, and, in the beginning, was used to prosecute drug traffickers or organized crime members.

But in recent years prosecutors have applied RICO to government officials accused of using their offices for personal gain---such as those named here---the various former and current Atlanta public school officials.

To bring a case under Georgia’s RICO law, there must be at least two underlying felonies — such as fraud, bribery, witness tampering (among others). RICO allows prosecutors to include multiple defendants charged with various crimes in the self-same indictment, and to charge that they were allegedly part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.

32 posted on 04/22/2015 7:10:06 AM PDT by Liz (Another Clinton administration? Are you nuts?)
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