For reasons that I don't fully understand--some sort of mystique, I guess--many conservative commenters on the internet are convinced that RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ) can be applied to all sorts of political corruption. This conviction is often accompanied by a conviction that a failure on the part of DoJ to charge under RICO is itself evidence of corruption in DoJ. This is simply not the case.
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For reasons that I don't fully understand--some sort of mystique, I guess--many conservative commenters on the internet are convinced that RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act ) can be applied to all sorts of political corruption. This conviction is often accompanied by a conviction that a failure on the part of DoJ to charge under RICO is itself evidence of corruption in DoJ. This is simply not the case.