One count of racketeering I believe is a minimum 20 years, and usually guys are hit with multiple charges.The amount of time faced and the quality of federal prosecutors scares guys and guys flip which seals the deal and guarantees the rest get sentenced The cornerstone of a RICO is to prove that a criminal enterprise existed, the second is to prove that crimes committed were to further its goals. It’s a whole bunch of legal mumbo jumbo but this is the gist of it in the simplest of terms They can charge you with essentially every crime through the charge of “racketeering”. So say a certain gang is being monitored by the FBI, after two years they have enough evidence to arrest one guy on drug charges, one guy on murder, one guy on extortion, so on and so fourth. They didn’t go break that guys leg and extort him, some low level guy did and he was willing to do 5 years and not say shit.Ī RICO works well against criminal organizations and particularly bosses because you don’t need to have committed a actual physical crime to be charged with it, all they need to do is prove that you were A) a member of a criminal organization B) committed at least two minor crimes at some point to further that criminal organizations goals, then they can charge you with every crime everyone is charged with The problem with catching mob bosses was that they stayed so far away from the crime that there was nothing they could be charged with. The RICO case was invented as a way to catch mob bosses.
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