Thread: The finer points of the RICO Act

RICO includes provisions that allow prosecutors to seize criminally gained assets and provide long prison sentences -- 20 years to life. (to me, this means money earned by taking part in the following activities)

Predicate crimes include, but are not limited to, activities such as:

Transporting and/or harboring aliens
Aiding aliens to illegally enter the United States
Importing aliens for immoral purposes
Peonage and slavery
Sexual exploitation of children
Interstate transportation for prostitution
Forgery or false use of passport
False statement in passport application
Misuse of passport
Fraudulent use of visa, permits, and other immigration documents
Laundering of monetary instruments
Bribery
Obstruction of justice
Obstruction of criminal investigations
Tampering with a witness, victim, or informant
Unlawful gambling business
Murder
Kidnapping

THIS momma is gonna start flying around the web if I can do it. Thank you for the information!

This is good......this is very good. It makes sense......Oh NOOO....there is no "sense" among our elected officials

My rep is the only one in NJ who is with Tom Tancredo and I'm going to email, mail and call with this RICO information. It will be interesting to hear his views and if he side steps it. Also, Tancredo should be reminded of this and understand that the citizens are discussing it.

THANK YOU! As Shaw mentioned, get this going around the internet, the blogs etc. and it just might pick up steam.

How many left wing groups can we investigate and shutdown for their criminal behavior under RICO? Lets see for starters:

1. ACLU
2. National Lawyers Guild
3. Maldef
4. National Council of LaRaza
5. Lulac
6. Derechos Humanos
7. Southern Poverty Law Center
8. Mecha
9. CAIR
10. NAMBLA
11. American Immigration Lawyers Association
12. First Data Western Union
13. Most of Wall Street
14. Border Action Network
15. Humane Borders

I'm sure the treason groups are in the hundreds, but this would be a great list to start with. The ACLU would be at the top of the list.

RICO Act was used against Mafia, and Human smuggling of Chinese and......
giant Tyson Foods, Inc. was successfully sued in 2004 under the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute --- because US citizens complianed they lost their jobs to illegal aliens.

RICO -- the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act --
is a federal statute originally enacted in 1970 to control organized crime (such as the Mafia). In the early 1990s, however, this law was expanded to target non-traditional organized crime groups.

The statute makes it unlawful to conduct, or conspire to conduct an enterprise whose activities affect interstate commerce by committing or agreeing to commit a pattern of racketeering activity.

To establish violations of the RICO statute, four elements must be proven.

First, the prosecution must demonstrate that the defendants were associated with an enterprise as defined in the U.S. Code 18, Section 1961(4).

The term "enterprise" is given a broad meaning under RICO. It can include any group of individuals whose association, however loose or informal, furnishes a vehicle for the commission of two or more "predicate crimes." ( see list in first posting) The enterprise requires an ongoing structure of persons associated with time, joined in purpose, and organized in a manner amenable to hierarchic or consensual decision-making. It is not necessary to show that each member of the enterprise participated in or knew about all the enterprises' activities.

Second, the government must prove that the enterprise engages in, or its activities affect, interstate commerce. It is not necessary that the racketeering activities themselves directly affect interstate commerce. The enterprise need have only a minimal connection with or effect on interstate commerce. (Example: Interstate travel or the use of interstate facilities such as banks, telephones, and wire transfers for drug trafficking.)

Third, the government is required to prove that each defendant agreed to participate in the enterprise through a pattern of racketeering. A "pattern of racketeering" activity requires two or more predicate acts within a 10-year time frame, and they must be connected with each other in some logical manner for an unlawful end.

Fourth, the government must prove that each defendant agreed to participate in the affairs of the enterprise by actually committing or agreeing to commit at least two predicate offenses. The defendant need not agree to participate in or have knowledge of all the activities of the enterprise -- the defendant is criminally responsible if he (or she) is aware of the basic structure of the enterprise.

Utah and Idaho are right now looking for ways to use this.

RICO has always been used by some arm of the government....either federal or state.

But now, different groups are trying to use it as a tool of the citizen plaintiff.
For instance: If you can show that a business denied legal citizens jobs in favor of illegals then you can show economic damages.

If you can show due to your city, state, or just local police that illegal gangs are causing health (like your life) or economic damage then that constitutes damages.

The most delicious thing that is shaping up is a group of construction companies who are not able to bid successfully against those companies who employ illegals off-the-books.....are now getting ready to file a class action suit against those who are hiring the illegals.....damages are based on loss of income and even loss of a company due to unequal bidding.

This is now becoming a lovely tool to stick it to 'em.

THANK YOU Beaner.

this is fabulous........

If you can show due to your city, state, or just local police that illegal gangs are causing health (like your life) or economic damage then that constitutes damages.

The most delicious thing that is shaping up is a group of construction companies who are not able to bid successfully against those companies who employ illegals off-the-books.....are now getting ready to file a class action suit against those who are hiring the illegals.....damages are based on loss of income and even loss of a company due to unequal bidding.

Thank you for your addition, Beaner. This has such potential.

I am only slightly embarassed to admit that at this point........I am ready to use any frigging tool that will work. That includes pitchforks, voodoo dolls, and bombs and whatever.

The target group does not exclude our elected idiots who are selling us down the filthy Rio Grand.

Get a load of this.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2...9/174952.shtml

Tuesday, April 19, 2005 5:44 p.m. EDT
Mexican Migrants Get Mortgage Program for Home

There is a new mortgage program for Mexican migrants in the U.S., according to a press release issued from Mexico’s embassy in Washington, D.C.

The program allows Mexican migrants living in the United States to obtain mortgages to buy homes in Mexico. The program will kick off with over 1,000 available mortgages and is expected to grow thereafter, says the release.

The "Mortgage Program for Mexican Migrants" was officially presented yesterday by President Vicente Fox in Mexico City.


In the first stage, the program will benefit workers from the states of Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacan, Puebla, Oaxaca and Zacatecas.

The program is operated by three private mortgage companies with offices in the United States: "Su Casita," "Hipotecaria Nacional" and "Credito Inmobiliario Terras/Conficasa," with the support of the Federal Mortgage Society (Sociedad Hipotecaria Federal), a Mexican public organization that promotes the construction and purchasing of housing in Mexico.

The release emphasized the following points:


Migrants will have the possibility of buying a home in Mexico while working in the USA.

The program is design to increase the standard of living of the families of migrants in Mexico, working in conjunction with the already existing so-called "3x1" Program – another route for migrants to increase their financial well-being while reinforcing their roots in Mexico.

You think we have a flood now.....what will happen when illegals see their home government will help them finance homes IF they work in US???

And of course that doesn't mean that the Foxweasel is encouraging illegals.

Look at the bright side--those buying houses in Mexico at least intend to go home! And those are southern Mexican states, are they not? Far from the border?

Only problem is, what are they going to buy, cardboard boxes along a river somewhere? What makes anyone think that the stupid idiots who got conned to sit in the United States paying mortgages on houses in Mexico are actually buying a house. Given the corrupt Mexican government, I woudn't trust this scheme any more than I trust the President of the United States to defend our borders as he took an oath to do.