“Federal prosecutors are increasingly using racketeering statutes to go after a broader array of criminal activity, applying them in ways that deviate from the law’s original goal of dismantling organized crime,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
Feds Increase Use of Law Intended for the Mob
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