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Referencing RICO. I think the case can be made wherein:<><> the Democrat Party used the power of the State to illegally spy on private citizens; <><> expanded to include Democrats in States and Cities who are openly defying the Government by establishing sanctuary cities.

Is there a point where someone will successfully prove that the Democrat Party is a criminal organization well within the definition of RICO? And can we not only hope for massive RICO criminal prosecutions, but equally massive civil asset forfeitures from those politicians and/or their States and Cities? And even more hopefully, can we hope that if the Courts designate the Democrat Party as a RICO operation, that it must cease and desist as a political party, and be banned from future political contests?

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Beautiful.....nice deconstruction. Something to look forward to for sure.

Basically RICO centers on (a) an organized group, (b) using a legal entity for criminal means, (c) in a "pattern" of criminal activities.

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REFERENCE The 1980 Georgia General Assembly was concerned about the increasing sophistication of various criminal elements on the public payroll (and those in elective and appointive office). The Georgia General Assembly then adopted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), patterned after a similar federal law.

(RICO is routinely used to try to prove that a legal business was being used for illegal means, and, in at its inception, RICO was used to prosecute drug traffickers or organized crime members).

In recent years prosecutors have applied RICO to crooked government officials: (1) those accused of using their public offices for personal gain, and, (2) tax-paid officials of govt agencies using public monies to flout the law.

To bring a case under Georgias RICO law, there must be at least two underlying felonies such as fraud, bribery, witness tampering (among other felonies).

RICO allows prosecutors to include multiple defendants charged with various crimes in the blanket indictment, and to charge that govt employees, publicy-funded and publicly-sanctioned entities were allegedly part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.

EXAMPLE A govt official commits two felonies by (1) accepting, and, (2) filing falsified documents.

UPDATE Georgia tried convicted and jailed 27 corrupt teachers under this law.....for falsely taking public money, falsifying official school records, and so on.