The Mayor of Oakland warns against ‘scapegoating’. He signed off on city budgets that included lavish salaries for Oakland govt employees who failed to inspect the warehouse in 30 years.
The Oakland govt employee shirked their duties as they pocketed tax dollars.....salaries, perks, pensions, expenses...and drove around in govt vehicles at taxpayers' expense.
The dilapidated Oakland warehouse became a deathtrap for dozens of innocent young people due to their negligence.
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PRESIDENT TRUMP AND AG SESSIONS SHOULD TAKE NOTE:
The 1980 Georgia General Assembly was concerned about “the increasing sophistication of various criminal elements in state and local government,” So the state 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 govt offices for personal gain. (At the time the measure became Georgia law, this involved some 27 various former and current Atlanta public school officials ho are now in jail under the RICO law.).
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.
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Libby lives in Montclair, among the lavishly compensated.
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