
The Department of Justice warns its prosecutors against using RICO, and the version on the books in Georgia is even more open to what the feds call ‘imaginative’ prosecutions. District Attorney Fani Willis’s indictment charges 19 defendants whose occupations have run the gamut from publicist for Kanye West to mayor of New York City to president of the United States. They all now have something in common — they are accused racketeers. Each and every defendant stands accused of participating in a “criminal enterprise” under Georgia’s RICO — Racketeer Influenced...