AOC has the gall to tell a former Solicitor General that he’s WRONG about RICO

by The Right Scoop

After yesterday’s embarrassment where AOC told Tony Bobulinski that RICO was not a crime, she’s decided to continue with her delusion and is now telling a former solicitor general that he’s wrong about it being a crime too.

Senator Ted Cruz, who worked as solicitor general for Greg Abbott when he was the Texas AG, responded to AOC’s claim that RICO is not a crime. Cruz said:

“This is bizarre. RICO—the Racketeer Influenced & Corrupt Organizations Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961–1968—is most assuredly a crime. It often results in massive felony sentences. And yet @aoc — eager to defend Joe Biden — insists it’s not a crime.”

 
You would think Ted Cruz would know what he’s talking about, right? But AOC says he’s WRONG:

“Wrong! RICO is a statute under which specific crimes may be considered – kidnapping, robbery, arson, etc. You need to name the crimes in order to substantiate RICO. So… since you’re the expert, what RICO crimes and evidence does House GOP have? Since they don’t seem to know.”

 
The problem for AOC is that Ted Cruz is absolutely right. Damien Toll explains it:

RICO, through 18 USC § 1962, establishes its own list of crimes that can be charged. You can call these racketeering (the R in RICO), but they are still criminal RICO charges. Yes, there are predicate offenses – other crimes – that must have also been committed, but what AOC is saying would be like saying that money laundering isn’t a crime because it also requires predicate offenses – in other words, that the money be used for the purposes of some other crime, which is a requirement for money laundering changes at 18 USC § 1956(a).


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