Something everyone needs to keep in mind is that RICO requires a pattern of criminality. One single crime can not be racketeering. A criminal that enters your home and steals your TV is not a corrupt organization. Multiple crimes need to be committed in an organized pattern. It took Rudy years to pin RICO on the NY mob. The stakes are higher here by many orders of magnitude.
If the WHs are to use RICO to gather up all the periphery players in this National Tragedy they will need to prove a pattern of criminality in pursuit of a goal. Those at the top will face Treason, sedition and crimes against humanity charges. RICO is for the complicit.
There are potentially millions that could be charged under RICO. That is a shit ton of evidence that needs to be collected. Letting the underlings slip away ensures that this continues at a later date. The WHs must make it known that this behavior will not be tolerated now or in the future without severe consequences.
Existential is a shitty, overused word. But this is truly existential. It is a zero sum game with the stakes being life itself. It must be done right. There can be no escape. That is what keeps me patient (for now).
Excellent point.
However, trying to catch them and round them all up in one RICO case is trying to eat the elephant whole.
Instead, round up those guilty of treason and execute them, and move forward with the evidence you have... one bite at a time. This approach would at least stop the criminal org from continuing business as usual.
Most importantly, I am tired of doing it the right way and by the book when they don't follow the book. Like in Mississippi Burning, Hackman's character plays outside the rules a bit and does it "his way" to get the job done.
It's time to fight the way they fight. Justice will prevail.
Don’t have to round up all of them, you can get a large chunk in a RICO case, then go after more