Thursday, March 22, 2018

RICO Trump?

For complex litigation the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, 18 USC 1961, is a legal nuclear weapon which allows all the actors and criminal acts of the conspiracy to be brought under one umbrella. The Trump Organization is an organization within the definition of the act; the Trump campaign was an organization; the Trump administration is an organization. Among the crimes that are "predicate acts" for the statute are obstruction of justice, fraud, and all manner of financial crimes. How does RICO not fit here?