Robert Urbanek
Platinum Member
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg may be using creative license to fashion a felony out of the hush money accusations against Trump, but he is hardly the first to stretch the law beyond its original intent.
Rudy Guiliani’s prosecution of Michael Milken and other Wall Street luminaries in the 1980s—the springboard from which Guiliani rose to become first the mayor of New York City and ultimately a popular public speaker collecting $75,000 per speech—involved some of the early attempts to expand criminal RICO provisions to prosecute private business figures who clearly were not mafiosi . . . Since RICO’s passage, the once-clear jurisdictional boundaries between state and federal law enforcement have been erased as more and more individuals find themselves in the federal dock with almost no chance of acquittal.
Law as a Weapon: How RICO Subverts Liberty and the True Purpose of Law | William L. Anderson, Candice E. Jackson
Rudy Guiliani’s prosecution of Michael Milken and other Wall Street luminaries in the 1980s—the springboard from which Guiliani rose to become first the mayor of New York City and ultimately a popular public speaker collecting $75,000 per speech—involved some of the early attempts to expand criminal RICO provisions to prosecute private business figures who clearly were not mafiosi . . . Since RICO’s passage, the once-clear jurisdictional boundaries between state and federal law enforcement have been erased as more and more individuals find themselves in the federal dock with almost no chance of acquittal.
Law as a Weapon: How RICO Subverts Liberty and the True Purpose of Law | William L. Anderson, Candice E. Jackson
