• prenatal_confusion@feddit.org
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    5 days ago

    They just rotate personnel. Can’t build a good case against one person as easily if you have to put it into context of predecessors crimes.

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      Actually there is a substantial amount of RICO case law. You can’t walk in and then claim you only broke the law because someone in th org previously did something making it illegal. These people are often the ones that flip and turn state’s witness.

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          What the mob was doing was keeping all the different parties oblivious of what each other were doing. If you ever hear “the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing” that is where it comes from. What RICO did was say as a group you all committed a crime. You can’t curtail the law by having 10 people do 10 different steps and then say they are all innocent as no one individual did it all.

          Those laws got stronger as criminals got smarter. To the point where using an unsuspecting 3rd party could implicate the 3rd party. If I wrote a letter to a hit man and then put that letter in another letter and sent it to you saying “can you please mail this for me but don’t open it” you and I and the hitman could all be charged with the killing. They can make the case you should have recognized this was shady and not helped.