With Racketeering Charges, Georgia Prosecutor Aims to ‘Tell the Whole Story’ posted at 14:20:35 UTC via nytimes.com
With Racketeering Charges, Georgia Prosecutor Aims to ‘Tell the Whole Story’ posted at 14:20:35 UTC via nytimes.com SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Prosecutors have found racketeering laws to be powerful tools in targeting not only foot soldiers in a criminal enterprise, but also high-level decision makers. Former President Donald J. Trump at a campaign rally in support of Georgia’s Republican senators before their runoff election in January 2021.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times Aug. 15, 2023Updated 8:19 a.m. ET For more than 50 years, prosecutors have relied on a powerful tool to take down people as varied as mafia capos, street gangs like the Crips and the Bloods , and pharmaceutical executives accused of fueling the opioid crisis. Now a prosecutor in Georgia is using the state’s version of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as RICO, to go after former President Donald J. Trump, who along with 18 of his allies was indicted on Monday on charges o
