Trump and associates might go down under RICO act

[Anonymous]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-trump-probe-looks-a-lot-like-a-rico-investigation

Referring to a cooperator as a “rat,” President Trump sometimes sounds like a mob boss. He may ultimately be prosecuted like one, too.

While some reports say that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is winding down, it appears that another investigation is just gearing up. According to reports in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, a grand jury in the Southern District of New York recently issued a subpoena to the Trump inaugural committee, seeking documents relating to donors and spending. According to reports, the subpoena indicates that prosecutors are investigating conspiracy against the United States, false statements, mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and violations of campaign finance and inaugural committee laws. In addition, CNN has reported that federal prosecutors in Manhattan have expressed interest in interviewing executives from the Trump Organization.

It is impossible to know exactly what the federal prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating, but the wide array of crimes brings to mind a case that was prosecuted in Detroit when I served as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan. Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and several of his associates were convicted under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, also known as RICO.

RICO is a statute that was passed in 1970 to prosecute organized crime. Until then, mob bosses would often insulate themselves from criminal exposure by directing underlings to commit crimes. In response, Congress enacted RICO, which, among other things, makes it a crime for any person associated with an enterprise to participate, directly or indirectly, in the conduct of the enterprise’s affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity. Pattern of racketeering activity is defined as two or more acts from a list of criminal offenses, such as mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, some of the very same crimes that SDNY prosecutors are reportedly now investigating. The penalties for violating RICO are heavy–up to 20 years in prison and forfeiture of the proceeds of the racketeering activity.

Excited. Would not be wonderful if the Trumps are convicted in RICO act, jailed and all their asset forfeited! That would be a godd pay back to put the country through chaos for 2/3 years. Rooting for the good to prevail over evil!

[Anonymous]

No surprise here. Trump is the picture of corrupt.

[Anonymous]

We see you have come to terms with the idea that Mueller does not have anything on Trump so you are desperately searching elsewhere.
LOL!

[Anonymous]

RICO suits always work! This is going to be a slam dunk! Donald Trump will never be President now!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We see you have come to terms with the idea that Mueller does not have anything on Trump so you are desperately searching elsewhere.
LOL!

Donald Trump and his shirty kids and associates are just that criminal. Whereas I couldn’t imagine doing anything illegal, the GOP crime syndicate embraces crimes of all kinds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We see you have come to terms with the idea that Mueller does not have anything on Trump so you are desperately searching elsewhere.
LOL!

Dude, Mueller found a bunch of somethings and farmed them out to SDNY.

LOL.

[Anonymous]

We've been talking about RiCO for two years. There is no question about this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RICO suits always work! This is going to be a slam dunk! Donald Trump will never be President now!

All the exclamation points and sarcasm in the world can't alter the reality of the situation. SDNY alone has enough evidence to end this national nightmare. And that shit ain't pardonable.

Exclamation point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We see you have come to terms with the idea that Mueller does not have anything on Trump so you are desperately searching elsewhere.
LOL!

He has lots of things: for example, the activities OP is describing, and that Mueller has made available for prosecution to other districts.

I do agree with you that corrupt intent with Russia is hard to prove and may not happen. Perhaps the Trump campaign, transition team and White House were so incredibly incompetent that they didn't even realize what they were doing with Russians was illegal at first. Or perhaps they didn't care and thought nobody would ever catch them. We may never know.

However, thanks to that initial investigation, Mueller has uncovered crimes of a financial nature. It remains to be seen whether it goes all the way up to Trump.

I encourage you to read All The President's Men. The official investigations and media probings into the Nixon White House proceeded in the same manner.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We see you have come to terms with the idea that Mueller does not have anything on Trump so you are desperately searching elsewhere.
LOL!

He has lots of things: for example, the activities OP is describing, and that Mueller has made available for prosecution to other districts.

I do agree with you that corrupt intent with Russia is hard to prove and may not happen. Perhaps the Trump campaign, transition team and White House were so incredibly incompetent that they didn't even realize what they were doing with Russians was illegal at first. Or perhaps they didn't care and thought nobody would ever catch them. We may never know.

However, thanks to that initial investigation, Mueller has uncovered crimes of a financial nature. It remains to be seen whether it goes all the way up to Trump.

I encourage you to read All The President's Men. The official investigations and media probings into the Nixon White House proceeded in the same manner.

I've been wondering this....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We see you have come to terms with the idea that Mueller does not have anything on Trump so you are desperately searching elsewhere.
LOL!

He has lots of things: for example, the activities OP is describing, and that Mueller has made available for prosecution to other districts.

I do agree with you that corrupt intent with Russia is hard to prove and may not happen. Perhaps the Trump campaign, transition team and White House were so incredibly incompetent that they didn't even realize what they were doing with Russians was illegal at first. Or perhaps they didn't care and thought nobody would ever catch them. We may never know.

However, thanks to that initial investigation, Mueller has uncovered crimes of a financial nature. It remains to be seen whether it goes all the way up to Trump.

I encourage you to read All The President's Men. The official investigations and media probings into the Nixon White House proceeded in the same manner.

I've been wondering this....

No chance. Pence was the sitting Governor of Indiana and was in the House for ten years before that. He did know or should have known that all of this was farkakte.

[Anonymous]

You should check out Popehat on twitter. It is almost never actually RICO.

https://twitter.com/popehat

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We see you have come to terms with the idea that Mueller does not have anything on Trump so you are desperately searching elsewhere.
LOL!

He has lots of things: for example, the activities OP is describing, and that Mueller has made available for prosecution to other districts.

I do agree with you that corrupt intent with Russia is hard to prove and may not happen. Perhaps the Trump campaign, transition team and White House were so incredibly incompetent that they didn't even realize what they were doing with Russians was illegal at first. Or perhaps they didn't care and thought nobody would ever catch them. We may never know.

However, thanks to that initial investigation, Mueller has uncovered crimes of a financial nature. It remains to be seen whether it goes all the way up to Trump.

I encourage you to read All The President's Men. The official investigations and media probings into the Nixon White House proceeded in the same manner.

I've been wondering this....

Nope. They did this, formally, on purpose. Premeditated. The server that connected with Alfa Bank, for example. That they straight up gave internal polling to Kilimnik, aka to Putin.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:RICO suits always work! This is going to be a slam dunk! Donald Trump will never be President now!

I'm sorry, what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:RICO suits always work! This is going to be a slam dunk! Donald Trump will never be President now!

I'm sorry, what?

Someone is probably implying that Trump and his companies have been the target of plenty of RICO actions, and that none of them kept him from getting elected president.

I think the real problem on him going down on those charges is that, if he really is giving control of the United States to Russia, it's not clear that just punishing him and a few associates on RICO charges would be enough to the Russian control structure out of the U.S. government.

I don't even care all that much if Russia is just spying on us the usual way. But if it's really trying to steer the United States around like a great big drone, then I want someone to disconnect us from the Russian joystick. Just sending Trump to prison is useless if Putin can still make us crash into the ground whenever he feels like it.