Federal prosecutors are reportedly considering charging Capitol Hill rioters under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, better known as the RICO Act, in order to use the incident to get at “extremist” groups who may have helped organize the assault.
Reuters reports that Justice Department officials are considering employing the act, which has been used, over the last several decades, to break up organized criminal enterprises like the Mafia, and “to combat certain ongoing racketeering crimes such as murder, kidnapping, bribery and money laundering.”
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